Gender and the Book Trades

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-70164-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 128, 494 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Library of the Written Word / Library of the Written Word - The Handpress World

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, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watson, Elise

Farrell-Jobst, Jessica

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.