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The woman reader / Belinda Jack.
Publication details: New Haven Yale University Press, [2012]Description: x, 330 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780300197204
- 0300197209
- Women -- Books and reading -- History
- Women -- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History
- Girls -- Books and reading -- History
- Girls -- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History
- Girls -- Books and reading
- Girls -- Books and reading -- Social aspects
- Women -- Books and reading
- Women -- Books and reading -- Social aspects
- Z1039.W65 J33 2013
Contents:
Summary: LITERARY STUDIES: GENERAL. This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations. Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women from gaining literacy and to censor their reading. She also recounts the counter efforts of remarkable women - and some men - who have fought back and battled for the educational enfranchisement of girls.
Primitives, goddesses and aristocrats -- Reading in the not-so-dark ages -- History, mystery and copying -- Outside the cloister -- 'To reade such bookes...my selfe to edyfye' -- Competing for attention -- Answering back -- Books of their own -- Nation-building -- The modern woman reader.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | Z 1039 .W65 J33 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5115804 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
LITERARY STUDIES: GENERAL. This lively book tells a story never told before: the complete history of women readers and the controversies their reading has inspired since the beginning of the written word. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring how and what women have read through the ages and across cultures and civilizations. Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women from gaining literacy and to censor their reading. She also recounts the counter efforts of remarkable women - and some men - who have fought back and battled for the educational enfranchisement of girls.
Primitives, goddesses and aristocrats -- Reading in the not-so-dark ages -- History, mystery and copying -- Outside the cloister -- 'To reade such bookes...my selfe to edyfye' -- Competing for attention -- Answering back -- Books of their own -- Nation-building -- The modern woman reader.
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