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Women in print: essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

James Philip Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand c2006 © University of Wisconsin Press
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  • 9780299217846 (paper)
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  • Literature
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Foreword (Elizabeth Long, page xv)
  • Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now (Barbara Sicherman, page 3)
  • Part 1: Print for a Purpose: Women as Editors and Publishers
    • Cultural Critique and Consciousness Raising: Clara Bewick Colby's Woman's Tribune and Late-Nineteenth-Century Radical Feminism (Kristin Mapel Bloomberg, page 27)
    • "Her Very Handwriting Looks as if She Owned the Earth": Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power (June Howard, page 64)
    • Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the Federated Indians of California (Terri Castaneda, page 77)
    • Unbossed and Unbought: Booklegger Press, the First Women-Owned American Library Publisher (Toni Samek, page 126)
  • Part 2: Women in a World of Books
    • Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste (Michele V. Cloonan, page 159)
    • Women and Intellectual Resources: Interpreting Print Culture and the Library of Congress (Jane Aikin, page 179)
    • A "Bouncing Babe," a "Little Bastard": Women, Print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 (Christine Pawley, page 208)
  • Part 3: A Centrifugal Force: Gendered Agency through Print
    • Power through Print: Lois Waisbrooker and Grassroots Feminism (Joanne E. Passet, page 229)
    • Woman's Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in American Mission Movement Narratives (Sarah Robbins, page 251)
    • "When Women Condemn the Whole Race": Bell Case La Follette's Women's Column Attacks the Color Line (Nancy C. Unger, page 281)
  • Contributors (page 299)
  • Index (page 303)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AMP 18.1 (2008): 132-134 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_periodicals/v018/18.1crosby.html
LCR 42.4 (Fall 2007): 464-467 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/libraries_and_culture/v042/42.4maack02.html
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