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Wo M E N in P R in T Danky CVR MECH 1/12/06 12:28 AM Page 1 Danky &Wiegand Print Culture / American History / Women’s Studies Women readers, editors, librarians, authors, journalists, booksellers, and others Essays on the are the subjects in this stimulating new collection on modern print culture. Elizabeth Jordan, editor of Harper’s Bazaar from 1900 to 1913 and author of two novels, combined public and private worlds and commercial and cultural spaces to open Print Culture up professional opportunities for women. Smoke Signal editor Marie Mason Potts worked to represent the interests of the Federated Indians of California in the middle of American decades of the twentieth century. And for forty years following the Civil War, Lois Waisbrooker published books and periodicals on female sexuality and women’s Women from the rights for a widely dispersed community of female readers. The dual achievement of this volume is to highlight the lives and work of relatively WOMEN IN PRINT Nineteenth unknown women while reflecting on current questions about voice, identity, and social change. The result is a complex and engaging picture of print culture and of the forces that affected women’s lives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. and Twentieth “These splendid essays introduce us to new faces and new voices in the world of Centuries books—a refreshing assortment of women writers, librarians, publishers, and booksellers who flourished over the course of a century from 1870 to 1970 and whose influence we are only beginning to appreciate. It’s invigorating to have so many new authors on my reading list!”—LINDA KERBER, University of Iowa “These essays communicate the passionate commitment to social justice of historical figures—like Belle Case La Follette and 1950s librarians in rural Wisconsin—and of the authors of the essays as well.”—ERIN SMITH, University of Texas at Dallas James P. Danky is director of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and Newspapers and Periodicals Librarian at the Wisconsin Historical Society. He is coeditor of the award-winning Print Culture in a Diverse America and author of numerous works on the radical press, women, and minorities. Wayne A. Wiegand is the F. William Summers Professor of Library and Informa- tion Studies and professor of American Studies at Florida State University. He is author of Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey and other award- WOMEN winning books. PRINT CULTURE HISTORY IN MODERN AMERICA James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, Series Editors Published in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin--Madison General IN PRINT Library System Office of Scholarly Communication. 0-299-21784-1 Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand The University of Wisconsin Press Madison, Wisconsin www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress Cover photo: University of Wisconsin--Madison Archives Cover design: Gore Studio, Inc. Wisconsin PRINT CULTURE HISTORY IN MODERN AMERICA UWP: Danky & Wiegand: Women in Print pagei Women in Print UWP: Danky & Wiegand: Women in Print pageii Print Culture History in Modern America UWP: Danky & Wiegand: Women in Print pageiii Women in Print Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand Foreword by Elizabeth Long the university of wisconsin press The University of Wisconsin Press 1930 Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ 3 Henrietta Street London WC2E 8LU, England Published online by University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing http://parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/books/print-culture/women-in-print.shtml In collaboration with Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America A joint project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and the University of Wisconsin–Madison http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/ Copyright © 2006 The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved 5 4 3 2 1 Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Women in print : essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand ; foreword by Elizabeth Long. p. cm.—(Print culture history in modern America) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-299-21784-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-299-21784-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Women in the book industries and trade—United States—History—19th century. 2. Women in the book industries and trade—United States—History—20th century. 3. Women—Books and reading—United States—History—19th century. 4. Women— Books and reading—United States—History—20th century. 5. Women editors—United States—History. 6. Women publishers—United States—History. 7. Libraries and women—United States—History. 8. Women authors, American. I. Danky, James Philip, 1947– II. Wiegand, Wayne A., 1946– III. Series. Z473.W68 2006 381’.45002’0820973—dc22 2005021512 For Gerda Lerner, whose pioneering in women’s history changed our campus along with the rest of the historical landscape. UWP: Danky & Wiegand: Women in Print pagevii Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix Foreword xv Elizabeth Long Connecting Lives: Women and Reading, Then and Now 3 Barbara Sicherman Part 1: Print for a Purpose: Women as Editors and Publishers Cultural Critique and Consciousness Raising: Clara Bewick Colby’s Woman’s Tribune and Late-Nineteenth-Century Radical Feminism 27 Kristin Mapel Bloomberg “Her Very Handwriting Looks as if She Owned the Earth”: Elizabeth Jordan and Editorial Power 64 June Howard Making News: Marie Potts and the Smoke Signal of the Federated Indians of California 77 Terri Castaneda Unbossed and Unbought: Booklegger Press, the First Women- Owned American Library Publisher 126 Toni Samek vii UWP: Danky & Wiegand: Women in Print pageviii viii contents Part 2: Women in a World of Books Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste 159 Michele V. Cloonan Women and Intellectual Resources: Interpreting Print Culture at the Library of Congress 179 Jane Aikin A “Bouncing Babe,” a “Little Bastard”: Women, Print, and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950–52 208 Christine Pawley Part 3: A Centrifugal Force: Gendered Agency through Print Power through Print: Lois Waisbrooker and Grassroots Feminism 229 Joanne E. Passet Woman’s Work for Woman: Gendered Print Culture in American Mission Movement Narratives 251 Sarah Robbins “When Women Condemn the Whole Race”: Belle Case La Follette’s Women’s Column Attacks the Color Line 281 Nancy C. Unger Contributors 299 Index 303 UWP: Danky & Wiegand: Women in Print pageix Preface and Acknowledgements On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, Wayne Wiegand and James Danky, co-directors of the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America, a joint program of the University of Wisconsin– Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society, arrived at an obvious but not surprising decision. Namely, that the conference, “Women in Print,” scheduled for September 14–15, 2001, and which had been planned for over two years, would need to be cancelled. In the days of sadness and anger following the tragedies of 9/11, the center determined that the conference could not be rescheduled, a great disappointment to those on the Madison campus as well as to the many scholars across North America who had made proposals and were preparing to come to Madison. We know that the conference would have been a great success, both in terms of intellectual content and local arrangements, because of the work of Jane Pearlmutter, assistant director of the School of Library and Information Studies, who has aided the Center so many times in the past. However, we determined that we would proceed with our inten- tion to produce a volume of the best papers, and we invited participants in the lost conference to submit finished drafts appropriate for publica- tion. After careful review, the papers in this volume were selected. In this process Rima Apple, William J. Reese, Phyllis Holman Weisbard, and all members of the center’s advisory board aided the editors. The committee’s work was greatly facilitated by Fran Scharko Steele and Sarah Dauscher of the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Library. The center’s “home” is in the School of Library and Information Studies where it has benefited greatly from the support and advice of its direc- tor, Louise Robbins. ix UWP: Danky & Wiegand: Women in Print pagex x preface and acknowledgments The center celebrated its tenth anniversary in October 2002 and it continues to help determine the historical sociology of print in modern America (ca. 1876 to the present) in all its culturally diverse manifestations. (See the center’s WebPages for more details, includ- ing our mission statement http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/.) In designing our colloquia, annual meeting, and biennial conferences we rely on the wisdom and energy of our advisory board members who include, in addition to those cited above: James L. Baughman, Paul Boyer, Sargent Bush (Chair), Kenneth Frazier, Peter Gottlieb, Robert Kingdom, Ginny Moore Kruse, Mary N. Layoun, Anne Lundin, Nellie McKay, Tony Michels, Richard Ralston, Stephen Vaughn, and David Woodward. This volume, the fourth to be published by the University of Wisconsin Press as part of the series Print Culture History in Modern America, has benefited from the encouragement and support of press director Robert Mandel, and associate director Steve Salemson has been essential to the enterprise. Women in Print is the inaugural title to be published both online and as print on demand. The cooperative venture between the Press and the University of Wisconsin–Madison Library is an important development in scholarly communications. The Press has been an enthusiastic supporter of this initiative, especially Terry Emmrich, Scott Lenz, Adam Mehring, and Mary Sutherland.
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