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Working with paper : gendered practices in the history of knowledge / edited by Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen.
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- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paper--History.
- Paper.
- History.
- Papermaking--History.
- Papermaking.
- Written communication--History.
- Written communication.
- Written communication--Sex differences--History.
- Technology and women--History.
- Technology and women.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Knowledge, Theory of--History.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Knowledge management.
- Written communication--Sex differences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color
- Place of Publication:
- Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2019]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part I Beyond the Page: The Sociomaterial History of Paper
- 1 Letter Writing and Paper Connoisseurship in Elite Households in Early Modern England Heather Wolfe p. 17
- 2 Papering the Household: Paper, Recipes, and Everyday Technologies in Early Modern England p. 32 / Elaine Leong
- 3 The Sociomateriality of Waste and Scrap Paper in Eighteenth-Century England p. 46 / Simon Werrett
- 4 Paper Trials, Multiple Masculinities, and the Oeconomy of Honor p. 60 / Gabriella Szalay
- Part II Transcending Boundaries Tools and Technologies
- 5 Bookkeeping for Caring: Notebooks, Parchment Slips, and Enlightened Medical Arithmetic in Madrid's Foundling House p. 77 / Elena Serrano
- 6 Unpacking the Phrenological Toolkit: Knowledge and Identity in Antebellum America p. 91 / Carla Bittel
- 7 Keeping Prussia's House in Order: Census Cards, Housewifery, and the States Data Compilation p. 108 / Christine von Oertzen
- 8 Tracing Paper, the Posture Sciences, and the Mapping of the Female Body p. 124 / Beth Linker
- Color Plates Follow Page 139
- Part III Knowledge, Power, and the Everyday
- 9 A Letter Is a Paper House: Home, Family, and Natural Knowledge p. 145 / Elizabeth Yale
- 10 Family Notebooks, Mnemotechnics, and the Rational Education of Margaret Monro p. 160 / Matthew Daniel Eddy
- 11 Papier-Mâché Anatomical Models: The Making of Reform and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France and Beyond p. 177 / Anna Maerker
- 12 Women Who Worked with Documents to Rationalize Reproduction p. 193 / Dan Bouk.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 283-295) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822986805
- 0822986809
- Publisher Number:
- 99982253488
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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