Book clubs
Subtitle: women and the uses of reading in everyday life
By: Elizabeth Long.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- United States -- Case studies; Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- Case studies; Reading -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-245) and index.
Table of contents: title: On the social nature of reading; title: Nineteenth-century white women's reading groups : literary inspiration and social reform; title: Between past and present : introductory reflections on the changing nature of women's reading groups; title: Exploring the social world of Houston's reading groups; title: Book selection : negotiating group identity through literature; title: Conversing with books, fashioning subjectivity, dealing with difference; title: Reading groups and the challenge of mass communication and marketing; title: At the end.