Women in Print : Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now -- 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 -- "Her Very Handwriting Looks as if She Owned the Earth": Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power -- Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the Federated Indians of California -- Unbossed and Unbought: Booklegger Press, the First Women-Owned American Library Publisher -- Part 2: Women in a World of Books -- Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste -- Women and Intellectual Resources: Interpreting Print Culture atthe Library of Congress -- A "Bouncing Babe," a "Little Bastard": Women, Print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-52 -- Part 3: A Centrifugal Force: Gendered Agency through Print -- Power through Print: Lois Waisbrooker and Grassroots Feminism -- Woman's Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in American Mission Movement Narratives -- "When Women Condemn the Whole Race": Belle Case La Follette's Women's Column Attacks the Color Line -- Contributors -- Index.

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