Print Culture / American History / Women's Studies
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Bookwomen
The most comprehensive account of the women
who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the Horn Book,
shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939.
The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman
Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney
Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization.
What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural
debates of the time, including concerns about "good reading"
for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity
and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs
of professional life. To view a digital copy visit the UW–Madison Libraries Web site http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/books/print-culture/bookwomen.shtml This book is published in a 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. For more information contact our publicity manager, Chris Caldwell, phone: (608) 263-0734, email: publicity@uwpress.wisc.edu |
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