Women in Print

by Danky, James Philip; Wiegand, Wayne A.; Long, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780299217846
• ISBN10: 0299217841
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-03
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. The essays feature women like Marie Mason Potts, editor of Smoke Signals, a mid-twentieth century periodical of the Federated Indians of California; Lois Waisbrooker, publisher of books and journals on female sexuality and women's rights in the decades after the Civil War; and Elizabeth Jordan, author of two novels and editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913. The volume presents a complex and engaging picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Published in collaboration among the University of Wisconsin Press, the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America (a joint program of the University of WisconsinMadison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of WisconsinMadison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication.

Author Biography

James P. Danky is director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Wayne A. Wiegand is the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Information Studies and professor of American Studies at Florida State University. 

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	ix
Foreword	xv
Elizabeth Long
Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now	3	(24)
Barbara Sicherman
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	27	(37)
Kristin Madel Bloomberg
"Her Very Handwriting Looks as if She Owned the Earth": Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power	64	(13)
June Howard
Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the Federated Indians of California	77	(49)
Terri Castaneda
Unbossed and Unbought: Booklegger Press, the First Women-Owned American Library Publisher	126	(33)
Toni Samek
Part 2: Women in a World of Books
Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste	159	(20)
Michele V. Cloonan
Women and Intellectual Resources: Interpreting Print Culture at the Library of Congress	179	(29)
Jane Aikin
A "Bouncing Babe," a "Little Bastard": Women, Print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950- 52	208	(21)
Christine Pawley
Part 3: A Centrifugal Force: Gendered Agency through Print
Power through Print: Lois Waisbrooker and Grassroots Feminism	229	(22)
Joanne E. Passet
Woman's Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in American Mission Movement Narratives	251	(30)
Sarah Robbins
"When Women Condemn the Whole Race": Belle Case La Follette's Women's Column Attacks the Color Line	281	(18)
Nancy C. Unger
Contributors	299	(4)
Index	303