TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jack,Belinda Elizabeth
TI  - The woman reader
SN  - 9780300197204
AV  - Z1039.W65 J33 2013
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Girls
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
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