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Book SynopsisWomen in Print is a collection of essays in two related volumes which considers the diversity of roles occupied by women in the design, authorship, production, distribution and consumption of printed material from the fifteenth century onwards.
The contributions included in Women in Print 2 cover the whole of the «letterpress era» in Europe from the early fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The essays address three themes: the role of women in the production of print; in its distribution; in addition to some neglected areas of women’s consumption of print.
To a greater extent the participation of women in the production and distribution of print has been written by the men who dominated the trade. Women in Print 2 explores the often-overlooked contribution to the business aspects of the printing and publishing industries, particularly female involvement in roles that were customarily seen as male preserves. This collection of essays brings together insights from multiple perspectives, seeking to recover the unheard voices and hitherto unnoticed activities of the many women who participated in the production, distribution and consumption of the printed word and image.
Table of ContentsContents: Christine Moog: Women, Printing and Prosecution – Joseph Saunders: Female Agency in the Social Network of the Early Modern English Print Trade, c.1623–41 – Hannah Jeans: «Her Book»: Identity and Femininity in Women’s Manuscript Interventions in Print – Kandice Sharren and Kate Moffatt: From Print to Process: Gender, Creative-Adjacent Labour and the Women’s Print History Project – Michelle Levy: John Murray’s Principal Women of Letters – Rose Roberto: Working Women: Female Contributors to Chambers’s Encyclopaedia – Zsuzsa Török: Hungarian Women in Scottish Print: Stephanie Wohl’s Occasional Correspondence in The Scotsman – Helen S. Williams: «Dangerous Intruders»: Women Compositors and Nineteenth-Century Print Trade Unionists – the Case of Perth – Özlem Özkal and Ömer Durmaz: Ottoman Women’s Print Network and Their Creative Contribution to Print Culture in Turkey – Nicola Wilson and Helen Southworth: Early Women Workers at the Hogarth Press (c.1917–25) – Jess Baines: «Second Wave» Feminist Printers in Britain.
