Overview

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 include: Rebecca Baumann, Montserrat Cachero, Verônica 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 Álvarez, Charley Matthews, Susan McElrath, Kirk Melnikoff, Malcolm Noble, Kate Ozment, Joanna Rozendaal, Kandice Sharren, Valentina Sonzini, Elise Watson, Joëlle Weis, Helen Williams, Alexandra E. Wingate, and Georgianna Ziegler.

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Author:   Elise Watson ,  Jessica Farrell-Jobst
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   128
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004701649

ISBN 10:   9004701648
Pages:   500
Publication Date:   28 December 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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 Álvarez 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-Wolfenbüttel  Joëlle 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  Verônica 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 Almodóvar 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

Reviews

“One of the most influential early modern book history series currently available.” Alexander S. Wilkinson, University College Dublin. In: SHARP News, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Autumn 2014), p. 10. “One of the most outstanding series in the field of European book history.” Mart van Duijn, Leiden University Libraries. In: Quaerendo, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2014).

Author Information

Elise Watson, Ph.D. (2022), University of St Andrews, is a postdoctoral researcher on the Universal Short Title Catalogue project. 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 women have participated in the early modern book trades, the pedagogy of gender, and erasure and officiality in historical methods and sources.

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