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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Jack, Belinda Elizabeth.     Subjects     Women -- Books and reading -- History.     Women -- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History.     Girls -- Books and reading -- History.     Girls -- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Jack, Belinda Elizabeth.       by title:      The woman reader / B...         MARC Display

The woman reader / Belinda Jack. by Jack, Belinda Elizabeth. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012. Subjects Women -- Books and reading -- History.   Women -- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History.   Girls -- Books and reading -- History.   Girls -- Books and reading -- Social aspects -- History. ISBN:  9780300120455 0300120451 Description:  x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "This lively story has never been told before: the complete history of women's reading and the ceaseless controversies it has inspired. Belinda Jack's groundbreaking volume travels from the Cro-Magnon cave to the digital bookstores of our time, exploring what and how women of widely differing cultures have read through the ages. Jack traces a history marked by persistent efforts to prevent women from gaining literacy or reading what they wished. She also recounts the counter-efforts of those who have battled for girls' access to books and education. The book introduces frustrated female readers of many eras--Babylonian princesses who called for women's voices to be heard, rebellious nuns who wanted to share their writings with others, confidantes who challenged Reformation theologians' writings, nineteenth-century New England mill girls who risked their jobs to smuggle novels into the workplace, and women volunteers who taught literacy to women and children on convict ships bound for Australia. Today, new distinctions between male and female readers have emerged, and Jack explores such contemporary topics as burgeoning women's reading groups, differences in men and women's reading tastes, censorship of women's on-line reading in countries like Iran, the continuing struggle for girls' literacy in many poorer places, and the impact of women readers in their new status as significant movers in the world of reading"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 028.9082 Ja Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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