Bookwomen : creating an empire in children's book publishing, 1919-1939
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Bookwomen : creating an empire in children's book publishing, 1919-1939
（Print culture history in modern America）
University of Wisconsin Press, c2006
- : pbk
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Book women
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University of Tsukuba Library, Library on Library and Information Science
: pbk023.53-E2110010006146
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-205) and index
Contents of Works
- Troublesome womanhood and new childhood
- Protecting books : Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, and the public library
- Selling books : bookshops, the WEIU, and Bertha Everett Mahony
- Making books : children's book publishing and Louise Hunting Seaman
- Becoming experts and friends
- Building professional culture
- Triumph and transition
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents the most comprehensive account of the women who, as librarians, editors, and founders of the ""Horn Book"", shaped the modern children's book industry between 1919 and 1939. The lives of Anne Carroll Moore, Alice Jordan, Louise Seaman Bechtel, May Massee, Bertha Mahony Miller, and Elinor Whitney Field open up for readers the world of female professionalization. What emerges is a vivid illustration of some of the cultural debates of the time, including concerns about ""good reading"" for children and about women's negotiations between domesticity and participation in the paid labor force and the costs and payoffs of professional life.
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