Gender and the Book Trades

Gender and the Book Trades

Farrell-Jobst, Jessica; Watson, Elise

Brill

01/2025

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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
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