Women in Print - Essays on Print Culture of American Women From Nineteenth Twentieth

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society), and the University of Wisconsin-Madison General Library System Office of Scholarly Communication. Zusammenfassung A collection on modern print culture! this work talks about women readers! editors! librarians! authors! journalists! booksellers! and others. It presents a picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women's lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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• Authors: James P. (EDT)/ Wiegand Danky, James P. Wiegand Danky
• Assisted by: James P Danky (Editor), James P. Danky (Editor), James Philip Danky (Editor), Wayne A Wiegand (Editor), Wayne A. Wiegand (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2006
• EAN: 9780299217846
• ISBN: 978-0-299-21784-6
• No. of pages: 275
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Print Culture History in Moder; Print Culture History in Modern America S.; Print Culture History in Modern America; Print Culture History in Modern America; Print Culture History in Moder
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories