Women in print : essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand ; foreword by Elizabeth Long.
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- [2006], ©2006
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Also known as
Print culture of American women from the 19th and 20th centuries
Publication/Creation
Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006], ©2006.
Physical description
xxi, 308 pages ; 23 cm.
Contents
Connecting lives : women and reading, then and now / Barbara Sicherman -- Cultural critique and consciousness raising : Clara Bewick Colby's Woman's tribune and late-nineteenth-century radical feminism / Kristin Mapel Bloomberg -- "Her very handwriting looks as if she owned the earth" : Elizabeth Jordan and editorial power / June Howard -- Making news : Marie Potts and the Smoke signal of the Federated Indians of California / Terri Castaneda -- Unbossed and unbought : Booklegger Press, the first women-owned American library publisher / Toni Samek -- Alice Millard and the gospel of beauty and taste / Michele V. Cloonan -- Women and intellectual resources : interpreting print culture at the Library of Congress / Jane Aikin -- A "bouncing babe," a "little bastard" : women, print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 / Christine Pawley -- Power through print : Lois Waisbrooker and grassroots feminism / Joanne E. Passet -- Woman's work for woman : gendered print culture in American mission movement narratives / Sarah Robbins -- "When women condemn the whole race" : Belle Case La Follette's women's column attacks the color line / Nancy C. Unger.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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- Women in the book industries and tradeUnited StatesHistory19th century
- Women in the book industries and tradeUnited StatesHistory20th century
- WomenBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory19th century
- WomenBooks and readingUnited StatesHistory20th century
- Women editorsUnited StatesHistory
- Women publishersUnited StatesHistory
- Libraries and womenUnited StatesHistory
- Women authors, American