Women in Print

Essays on the Print Culture of American Women
From the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand
Foreword by Elizabeth Long

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Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments | PDF (188kb)
Foreword | PDF (220kb)
Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now
Barbara Sicherman | PDF (268kb)
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 | PDF (332kb)
“Her Very Handwriting Looks as if She Owned the Earth”: Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power
June Howard | PDF (230kb)
Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the Federated Indians of California
Terri Castaneda | PDF (385kb)
Unbossed and Unbought: Booklegger Press, the First Women-Owned American Library Publisher
Toni Samek | PDF (305kb)
Part 2: Women in a World of Books
Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste
Michele V. Cloonan | PDF (252kb)
Women and Intellectual Resources: Interpreting Print Culture at the Library of Congress
Jane Aikin | PDF (296kb)
A “Bouncing Babe,” a “Little Bastard”: Women, Print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950—52
Christine Pawley | PDF (247kb)
Part 3: A Centrifugal Force: Gendered Agency through Print
Power through Print: Lois Waisbrooker and Grassroots Feminism
Joanne E. Passet | PDF (267kb)
Woman's Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in American Mission Movement Narratives
Sarah Robbins | PDF (304kb)
“When Women Condemn the Whole Race”: Belle Case La Follette's Women's Column Attacks the Color Line
Nancy C. Unger | PDF (238kb)
Contributors and Index | PDF (209kb)