Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

TitleWomen in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2006
Series EditorDanky, James P., Wiegand, Wayne A.
Number of Pages308 pp.
PublisherUniversity of Wisconsin
CityMadison, WI
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780299217846
Annotation

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

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