Description:
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.Brief description: James P. Danky is the cofounder of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and retired librarian for periodicals and newspapers at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He is many books include Underground Classics: The Transformation of Comics into Comix.
Review Quotes: "Rarely has a collection featured this breadth of scholarship about so many relatively unknown women authors, booksellers, editors, journalists, librarians, and publishers. . . . Women in Print is, quite simply, an essential text for anyone interested in the lives and work of women in American literature."--Jan Whitt, Journalism History