Women in print
Subtitle: essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
By: edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand ; foreword by Elizabeth Long.
Contributors: Danky, James Philip, 1947-; Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946-
Series: Print culture history in modern America
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Madison
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780299217846
Subjects: Women in the book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women in the book industries and trade -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 19th century.; Women -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women editors -- United States -- History.; Women publishers -- United States -- History.; Libraries and women -- United States -- History.; Women authors, American.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Connecting lives : women and reading, then and now / Barbara Sicherman; value: Cultural critique and consciousness raising : Clara Bewick Colby's Woman's tribune and late-nineteenth-century radical feminism / Kristin Mapel Bloomberg; value: "Her very handwriting looks as if she owned the earth" : Elizabeth Jordan and editorial power / June Howard; value: Making news : Marie Potts and the Smoke signal of the Federated Indians of California / Terri Castaneda; value: Unbossed and unbought : Booklegger Press, the first women-owned American library publisher / Toni Samek; value: Alice Millard and the gospel of beauty and taste / Michele V. Cloonan; value: Women and intellectual resources : interpreting print culture at the Library of Congress / Jane Aikin; value: A "bouncing babe," a "little bastard" : women, print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 / Christine Pawley; value: Power through print : Lois Waisbrooker and grassroots feminism / Joanne E. Passet; value: Woman's work for woman : gendered print culture in American mission movement narratives / Sarah Robbins; value: "When women condemn the whole race" : Belle Case La Follette's women's column attacks the color line / Nancy C. Unger.