Making impressions: women in printing and publishing

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"This collaboration, edited by Dr. Cathleen Baker and Rebecca M. Chung, brings together various essays that provide an introduction to the history of women in the production of printed texts. The text, in particular the final essay, cover all the way up to the present time period (2016-2019), making this a valuable reference book for current academic studies and research libraries"--Provided by publisher.

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Women and widows: invisible printers / Christine N. Moog -- Elizabeth Holt and the early modern women imprinting the mind of man / Miranda Garno Nesler -- Detangling the Medusa in early American printing history / Dianne L. Roman -- Women's work in the 19th-century economy of pornography / E. Haven Hawley -- Potluck books and the women of the distaff side / Kathleen Walkup -- Case studies: how a generation of women came to print / Karen E. Holmberg -- The visual vocabulary of pochoir in La prose du Transsibérien: Sonia Delaunay, Nathalie Couderc, and Christine Menguy / Kitty Maryatt -- Cita: a feminist open-access digital library and print-on-demand / Juliana Castro Varón.