None of your damn business
By: Barbara Leoff Burge
Contributors: Women's Studio Workshop; Press Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Women's Studio Workshop
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rosendale, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781893125735
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Artists' books; Nü shu; Secret Languages; Women; Language; Chinese language; Writing
Other titles: Noneofyourdamnbusiness
Notes: "None of Your Damn Business, a story about Yang Huanyi, the last writer of the Chinese women's secret language "Nushu", is written in shorthand, the secret language of former stenographers. Its curves and arabesques closely resemble Islamic script whose celebrated practitioners are exclusively men. This book is dedicated to all who by dint of necessity or for the sheer mischief of it, write their own secret language."--Women's Studio Website, http://www.wsworkshop.org/ , viewed October 29, 2010.

Issued in an edition of 55 copies.

Throw-out accordion fold book.

"The book was silk screen printed on Fabriano paper."--Colophon.

LC has copy no. 45 of 55 copies, signed by the artist.

Description and digital images of this object available on the Women's Studio Workshop Archive website: http://www.wsworkshop.org/archive_item.php?ID=3146

Bound in green paper over board. A small padlock, with key, is attached to the covers, allowing the book to be locked.