Gender and the Book Trades
Published on 13. January 2025
Book
Leather / fine binding
516 pages
978-90-04-70164-9 (ISBN)
Description
This volume proposes a new and radically inclusive approach to the study of the book by using gender as a tool of analysis. While female authors and women in the book trades have long been studied, gender itself has yet to be explored as a methodology rather than a subject in book history. We argue that putting gender analysis into practice requires thinking inclusively about both the book world and the interactions of its participants from the beginning.
With twenty-five pioneering case studies that stretch from colonial Peru to modern Delhi, using a variety of intersectional methodologies including network analysis, critical bibliography, and queer theory, Gender and the Book Trades sets out an innovative method of analysing the printed book.
Contributors: Rebecca Baumann, Montserrat Cachero, Veronica Calsoni Lima, Matthew Chambers,
Kanupriya Dhingra, Nora Epstein, Natalia Fantetti, Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Agnes Gehbald, Rabia Gregory, Laura Guinot Ferri, Elizabeth Le Roux, Sarah Lubelski, Natalia Maillard Alvarez, Charley Matthews, Susan McElrath, Kirk Melnikoff, Malcolm Noble, Kate Ozment, Joanna Rozendaal, Kandice Sharren, Valentina Sonzini, Elise Watson, Joelle Weis, Helen Williams, Alexandra E. Wingate, and Georgianna Ziegler.
With twenty-five pioneering case studies that stretch from colonial Peru to modern Delhi, using a variety of intersectional methodologies including network analysis, critical bibliography, and queer theory, Gender and the Book Trades sets out an innovative method of analysing the printed book.
Contributors: Rebecca Baumann, Montserrat Cachero, Veronica Calsoni Lima, Matthew Chambers,
Kanupriya Dhingra, Nora Epstein, Natalia Fantetti, Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Agnes Gehbald, Rabia Gregory, Laura Guinot Ferri, Elizabeth Le Roux, Sarah Lubelski, Natalia Maillard Alvarez, Charley Matthews, Susan McElrath, Kirk Melnikoff, Malcolm Noble, Kate Ozment, Joanna Rozendaal, Kandice Sharren, Valentina Sonzini, Elise Watson, Joelle Weis, Helen Williams, Alexandra E. Wingate, and Georgianna Ziegler.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Cloth
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-04-70164-9 (9789004701649)
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Persons
Elise Watson, Ph.D. (2022, University of St Andrews) is a postdoctoral researcher on the Universal Short Title Catalogue project at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on print, gender, Catholicism, and religious coexistence in the early modern period.
Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Ph.D. (2021, University of St Andrews) is an early career scholar and educator. Her research explores the multifaceted ways in which women have participated in the early modern book trades, the pedagogy of gender, and erasure and officiality in historical methods and sources.
Jessica Farrell-Jobst, Ph.D. (2021, University of St Andrews) is an early career scholar and educator. Her research explores the multifaceted ways in which women have participated in the early modern book trades, the pedagogy of gender, and erasure and officiality in historical methods and sources.
Content
Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Gender as an Inclusive Model for Book History
?Elise Watson, Jessica Farrell-Jobst and Nora Epstein
Part 1: Familiar Networks
2 Women in the Family Business: the Case for Nuremberg's Endter Printing Dynasty
?Jessica Farrell-Jobst
3 Knitting Ties in a Global Trade Network: the Maldonado Women and the Book Business in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
?Natalia Maillard Alvarez and Montserrat Cachero
4 Women in the Workshop: Property Structure, Print Culture, and Female Management in Colonial Peru
?Agnes Gehbald
Part 2: Publishing Gender
5 'Best Left to Men': Women and Publishing Histories in Africa
?Elizabeth Le Roux
6 Beneath the Bright Covers: Women in Twentieth-Century Paperback Publishing
?Rebecca Baumann
7 A 'Gentlemen's Profession': the Historical Masculinisation of British Publishing
?Sarah Lubelski
Part 3: Editorial Interventions
8 Mary Hays' Female Biography (1803), the Anthology, and Reading as Gendered Labour in the Early Nineteenth Century Book Trades
?Charley Matthews
9 Constantia Grierson's Ghost and the Problem of Posthumous Print
?Helen Williams
Part 4: The Bookshop and the Marketplace
10 The Bookshop Salon: Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, and Gendered Forms of Bookselling in Interwar Paris
?Matthew Chambers
11 Boundary Work in the Bazaar: the Women Booksellers of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market
?Kanupriya Dhingra
12 The Bookseller and the Lady: the Literary Ambitions of Anna de Sterke (1755-1831) and Her Dealings with Bookseller Luchtmans
?J.C. Rozendaal
Part 5: Shaping Collections: Gender and Value
13 'No entiende en el Balor de los libros': the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre
?Alexandra Wingate
14 The 'Librara', a Female Librarian in Seventeenth-Century Genoese Nunneries
?Valentina Sonzini
15 Between Piety and Scholarship: the Bible Collection of Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel
?Joelle Weis
Part 6: Crafting Identity: Religion and Gender
16 Seditious Pamphlets 'Mid-wifed into the World': Gender and the Confederate Stationers' Clandestine Publishing Business in Restoration England
?Veronica Calsoni Lima
17 Printing Prophecy before 1550: Fame, Piety, and Gender in Northern Europe
?Rabia Gregory
18 Learning Your Papist ABCs: Gendered Instruction and Printed Books in Clandestine Catholic Schools in the Dutch Republic
?Elise Watson
Part 7: Gendered Perception and Reality
19 The Keys to the Forbidden Books: the Duchess of Almodovar and Her Libraries
?Laura Guinot Ferri
20 Lace, Letters, and the Calligraphic Manuscripts of Esther Inglis
?Georgianna Ziegler
21 Rare Books and Rarer Personalities: Belle da Costa Greene, Wilfrid Michael Voynich, and Stylised Gender Performance in the Rare Book Trade, c.1890-1930
?Natalia Fantetti
22 Neither Radical nor Domestic: Women of the Bindery Local No. 125 of San Francisco 1902-1917
?Susan McElrath
Part 8: Towards Inclusive Histories
23 Women, Wills, and the Early London Book Trade (1557-1666)
?Kirk Melnikoff
24 'Come Buy This Book of Me': Commodifying Difference in the Marketing of British Books, 1750-1830
?Kate Ozment and Kandice Sharren
25 Affective Bibliography: Three Queer Approaches to Print
?Malcolm Noble
Index
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Gender as an Inclusive Model for Book History
?Elise Watson, Jessica Farrell-Jobst and Nora Epstein
Part 1: Familiar Networks
2 Women in the Family Business: the Case for Nuremberg's Endter Printing Dynasty
?Jessica Farrell-Jobst
3 Knitting Ties in a Global Trade Network: the Maldonado Women and the Book Business in the Sixteenth-Century Iberian Atlantic
?Natalia Maillard Alvarez and Montserrat Cachero
4 Women in the Workshop: Property Structure, Print Culture, and Female Management in Colonial Peru
?Agnes Gehbald
Part 2: Publishing Gender
5 'Best Left to Men': Women and Publishing Histories in Africa
?Elizabeth Le Roux
6 Beneath the Bright Covers: Women in Twentieth-Century Paperback Publishing
?Rebecca Baumann
7 A 'Gentlemen's Profession': the Historical Masculinisation of British Publishing
?Sarah Lubelski
Part 3: Editorial Interventions
8 Mary Hays' Female Biography (1803), the Anthology, and Reading as Gendered Labour in the Early Nineteenth Century Book Trades
?Charley Matthews
9 Constantia Grierson's Ghost and the Problem of Posthumous Print
?Helen Williams
Part 4: The Bookshop and the Marketplace
10 The Bookshop Salon: Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, and Gendered Forms of Bookselling in Interwar Paris
?Matthew Chambers
11 Boundary Work in the Bazaar: the Women Booksellers of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market
?Kanupriya Dhingra
12 The Bookseller and the Lady: the Literary Ambitions of Anna de Sterke (1755-1831) and Her Dealings with Bookseller Luchtmans
?J.C. Rozendaal
Part 5: Shaping Collections: Gender and Value
13 'No entiende en el Balor de los libros': the Value of Books for Women Owners in Seventeenth-Century Navarre
?Alexandra Wingate
14 The 'Librara', a Female Librarian in Seventeenth-Century Genoese Nunneries
?Valentina Sonzini
15 Between Piety and Scholarship: the Bible Collection of Elisabeth Sophie Marie of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel
?Joelle Weis
Part 6: Crafting Identity: Religion and Gender
16 Seditious Pamphlets 'Mid-wifed into the World': Gender and the Confederate Stationers' Clandestine Publishing Business in Restoration England
?Veronica Calsoni Lima
17 Printing Prophecy before 1550: Fame, Piety, and Gender in Northern Europe
?Rabia Gregory
18 Learning Your Papist ABCs: Gendered Instruction and Printed Books in Clandestine Catholic Schools in the Dutch Republic
?Elise Watson
Part 7: Gendered Perception and Reality
19 The Keys to the Forbidden Books: the Duchess of Almodovar and Her Libraries
?Laura Guinot Ferri
20 Lace, Letters, and the Calligraphic Manuscripts of Esther Inglis
?Georgianna Ziegler
21 Rare Books and Rarer Personalities: Belle da Costa Greene, Wilfrid Michael Voynich, and Stylised Gender Performance in the Rare Book Trade, c.1890-1930
?Natalia Fantetti
22 Neither Radical nor Domestic: Women of the Bindery Local No. 125 of San Francisco 1902-1917
?Susan McElrath
Part 8: Towards Inclusive Histories
23 Women, Wills, and the Early London Book Trade (1557-1666)
?Kirk Melnikoff
24 'Come Buy This Book of Me': Commodifying Difference in the Marketing of British Books, 1750-1830
?Kate Ozment and Kandice Sharren
25 Affective Bibliography: Three Queer Approaches to Print
?Malcolm Noble
Index