Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Print Culture History in Modern America): Essays ... (Print Culture History in Modern America)

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. Contents......Page 8 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 10 Foreword......Page 16 Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now......Page 26 Part 1: Print for a Purpose: Women as Editors andPublishers......Page 48 Cultural Critique and Consciousness Raising: Clara BewickColby’s Woman’s Tribune and Late-Nineteenth-CenturyRadical Feminism......Page 50 “Her Very Handwriting Looks as if She Owned the Earth”:Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power......Page 87 Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the FederatedIndians of California......Page 100 Unbossed and Unbought: Booklegger Press, the First Women-Owned American Library Publisher......Page 149 Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste......Page 182 Women and Intellectual Resources: Interpreting Print Culture atthe Library of Congress......Page 202 A “Bouncing Babe,” a “Little Bastard”: Women, Print, and theDoor-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950–52......Page 231 Part 3: A Centrifugal Force: Gendered Agency through Print......Page 250 Power through Print: Lois Waisbrooker and Grassroots Feminism......Page 252 Woman’s Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in AmericanMission Movement Narratives......Page 274 “When Women Condemn the Whole Race”: Belle Case La Follette’s Women’s Column Attacks the Color Line......Page 304 Contributors......Page 322 Index......Page 326 Connecting Lives : Women And Reading, Then And Now / Barbara Sicherman -- Cultural Critique And Consciousness Raising : Clara Bewick Colby's Woman's Tribune And Late-nineteenth-century Radical Feminism / Kristin Mapel Bloomberg -- Her Very Handwriting Looks As If She Owned The Earth : Elizabeth Jordan And Editorial Power / June Howard -- Making News : Marie Potts And The Smoke Signal Of The Federated Indians Of California / Terri Castaneda -- Unbossed And Unbought : Booklegger Press, The First Women-owned American Library Publisher / Toni Samek -- Alice Millard And The Gospel Of Beauty And Taste / Michele V. Cloonan -- Women And Intellectual Resources : Interpreting Print Culture At The Library Of Congress / Jane Aikin -- A Bouncing Babe, A Little Bastard : Women, Print, And The Door-kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 / Christine Pawley -- Power Through Print : Lois Waisbrooker And Grassroots Feminism / Joanne E. Passet -- Woman's Work For Woman : Gendered Print Culture In American Mission Movement Narratives / Sarah Robbins -- When Women Condemn The Whole Race : Belle Case La Follette's Women's Column Attacks The Color Line / Nancy C. Unger. Edited By James P. Danky And Wayne A. Wiegand ; Foreword By Elizabeth Long. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Also Available On The Internet. Contents 8 Preface and Acknowledgments 10 Foreword 16 Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now 26 Part 1: Print for a Purpose: Women as Editors andPublishers 48 Cultural Critique and Consciousness Raising: Clara BewickColby’s Woman’s Tribune and Late-Nineteenth-CenturyRadical Feminism 50 “Her Very Handwriting Looks as if She Owned the Earth”:Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power 87 Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the FederatedIndians of California 100 Unbossed and Unbought: Booklegger Press, the First Women-Owned American Library Publisher 149 Part 2: Women in a World of Books 182 Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste 182 Women and Intellectual Resources: Interpreting Print Culture atthe Library of Congress 202 A “Bouncing Babe,” a “Little Bastard”: Women, Print, and theDoor-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950–52 231 Part 3: A Centrifugal Force: Gendered Agency through Print 250 Power through Print: Lois Waisbrooker and Grassroots Feminism 252 Woman’s Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in AmericanMission Movement Narratives 274 “When Women Condemn the Whole Race”: Belle Case La Follette’s Women’s Column Attacks the Color Line 304 Contributors 322 Index 326 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.