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General Introduction Making Fields: Women in Publishing

From the book The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020

  • Claire Battershill , Alice Staveley and Nicola Wilson
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399500357-004
© 2024, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh
From the book
The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020
The Edinburgh Companion to Women in Publishing, 1900–2020

Chapters in this book (50)

Frontmatter
Contents
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Editors’ note
General Introduction Making Fields: Women in Publishing
Part I Women as Editors and Publishers (Books)
Introduction
Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing
1 Black Women Publishers in the UK
2 Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and the Dun Emer Press: Irish, British and Transatlantic Connections
3 Women and Modernist Small Presses: Virginia Woolf, Anaïs Nin, Nancy Cunard, Caresse Crosby, Una Marson
4 ‘Mere girls’: Grace Hogarth and Women Pathbreakers in Transatlantic Twentieth-Century Children’s Publishing
5 Cultural Practices and the Public Arena: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Women Editors
6 Democratising Culture and Building a New Consciousness: The Transformative Female Publishers of Post-Franco Spain
7 Translating and Publishing across the Channel: Natalia Ginzburg’s Career from Einaudi to Carcanet
8 ‘I am not a cherry on top of the cake’: Inge Schönthal Feltrinelli as Publisher
9 Toni Morrison at Random House
10 Intersectional Feminist Poetics at the Kitchen Table Press
11 Women of Colour in British Young Adult Fiction: Subverting Stereotypes and Expanding Identities
Part II Women and the Periodical Press: Editors / Journalists /Activists
Introduction
Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing
12 ‘Unnamed but ever-present consulting editor’: A Feminist Problem
13 The Expansive Vision of Jessie Redmon Fauset
14 A Literary Bridge between Italy and the United States: Ester, Natalia and Lea Danesi
15 Noémia de Sousa (1926–2002): Poetry, Gender and Journal Cultures
16 Periodical Publishing and the Independent Press: Nancy Chambers, Thimble Press and Signal: Approaches to Children’s Books
17 Networks of Conflict and Mediation: Negotiating Socialist Feminism in the Second-Wave Periodicals Red Rag and Scarlet Women
Part III Women Workers within Publishing
Introduction
Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing
18 Fitzi’s Library: Feminist Bibliography and Anarchist Print Culture
19 Navigating Publishing in the 1930s: Gwenda David, Translator, Reader and Agent
20 Like Needle and Thread: How Women Connected Italy to America at the House of Farrar, Straus
21 Carmen Balcells: The Agent of the Latin American Literary Boom
22 Women’s Creative Labour Contribution to the American Christian Publishing Industry
23 Women Literary Agents in Canada, 1950–2000
24 Living the Dream: Feminist Book Publisher Memoirs and the Business of Anglo-American Feminist Life Writing in the Twenty-First Century
Part IV Making / Selling / Distributing
Introduction
Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing
25 Women Editing and Illustrating in Popular Archaeology Publishing
26 A Room of One’s Own on the High Street: Women Booksellers in Early Twentieth- Century Britain and the United States
27 Finding Miss Weaver: James Joyce and the Patron of Ulysses
28 Women in Type: Investigating Women’s Role in Type Drawing Offices, 1910–1990
29 Marie Neurath: Designing and Publishing Isotype Books for Children
30 Building Feminist Institutions: Women in Distribution, the Feminist Press and Cultures of Small Press Circulation
31 Virago Modern Classics: The Making of a Reprint Series
32 Murder at The Women’s Press: Transnational Accomplices and the Feminist Crime Scene
33 Shifting Agency: Feminist Publishing Collectives in Aotearoa New Zealand
Notes on Contributors
Index
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