Do conferences count? If so, the mashed potato bar at 2001 SHARP in Virginia.
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Do conferences count? If so, the mashed potato bar at 2001 SHARP in Virginia.
This online course considers what might constitute a feminist approach to studying books, what the benefits of such approaches are, and how to incorporate them into our own work. We will center the textual object in exploring these issues, letting artifacts drive our questions rather than the actions of book makers, sellers, or collectors. Another way of putting this is that the course won't ask who women printing books were, but rather, who determined the terms on which we engage with books. This doesn't mean ignoring the many agents involved in book work, including the people involved in the long history of book trades, the academic field of print culture and textual editing, and the intersection of these with library practices. But it means that our work this week will be focused on generating questions about methodology rather than recovering names and histories.
We will also wrestle with the theory and practice of feminism, which has a history of different meanings for different communities, and how to develop it as an inclusive practice for our book work. If living a feminist life is, as Sara Ahmed argues, something we must return to over and over, something that we put into practice daily rather than something that stays in the classroom, how do we bring that into our spaces of book work? Through a combination of short advance readings about bibliography and feminism, course discussions, and your own work with textual artifacts, we will explore what questions are brought to the forefront when we approach our work through a feminist framework. Participants should anticipate two concurrent and two asynchronous sessions each course day, with those sessions being scheduled to accommodate the range of US time zones; asychronous sessions could involve exercises, readings, and off-camera discussions.
Discussions and exercises will also try explore different models of pedagogy in order to give participants a feel for what methodologies might suit them best. The course is intended to be of use to anyone researching, teaching, or acting as a custodian for rare books; although we will pay careful attention to the first centuries of western printing, since the study of those books have shaped the field of bibliography as a whole, the issues the course will consider cover all periods of book study. Participants should not expect to come out of the course having mastered a feminist history of books, but to leave with a set of tools to ask feminist questions of books.
Come think about Feminist Bibliography with me this summer! I’m teaching a one-week online course for @calrbs.bsky.social—I love this class and am excited to do it again. Description below; priority deadline April 15; all details at www.calrbs.org/feminist-bib...
I’m fascinated by this subset of #Victorian #suffragists. How many were like Miss Brabrook, unsung, obscure, but not unremarkable?
To mark International Women's Day, here's a celebration of four of pioneering women with Glasgow connections. They are: Margaret Easton Anderson, a graudate of Glasgow University and the first woman to practice law in the UK;
Cont./
#glasgow #internationalwomensday #glasgowhistory
For #InternationalWomensDay, introducing Eliza Margaret Brabrook (1866-1927) whose editorial and management skills brought the *Women’s Gazette* to a close in 1892 after Eliza Orme’s departure. Subeditor for a London publisher; active Liberal and feminist; daughter of a prominent intellectual.
Mon premier article de fond sur la #découvrabilité dans l'écosystème du livre vient de paraître dans la revue Mémoires du livre/Studies in Book Culture, sous la direction de Julien Lefort-Favreau (U. Queen’s) et Sarah Brouillette (U. Carleton) : doi-org.ezproxy.usherbrooke.ca/10.7202/1122....
Wonderful 🧵 on Scottish medical women. Can’t help but add that Flora Masson was Eliza Orme’s niece.
I used to work on a series of late-19th c. books (on science). Some copies preserved in rare book room, others bundled, deteriorating , in the bottom shelves of stacks, reminders of the ones that were not in libraries at all.
#bookhistory
Latest in the @uoftpress.bsky.social series, Studies in Book and Print Culture. #bookhistory
In my mind, and I think for many in SHARP, contemporary publishing studies is part of #bookhistory. Unless you go for “book studies” (which has its own problems) you’re stuck with a term that implies contemporary history as well as the past.
Really interesting (and optimistic) 🧵. But I notice nobody refers to this work as #bookhistory. Is this significant?
Interesting article in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social about missionary periodicals. When I first joined @rs4vp.org I was going to do something with the Bible Society’s *Monthly Register*. Someone still should.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Shocking but not surprising. Some day I’m going to write an essay about the phrase “historian and author” — as if one could function as a historian without engaging in some sort of authorship.
Your ragbag includes at least 3 historians (Froude, Freeman, Lecky). So that was another group/genre without their own category?
Studies in Book Culture's latest issue is now available. Directed by Sarah Brouillette and Julien Lefort-Favreau, the issue is entitled "The Politics of Visibility and Discoverability in Contemporary Publishing".
You can read it here : www.erudit.org/.../2....
I co-edited this bilingual issue of Mémoires du livre /
Studies in Book Culture w/ @julienlf.bsky.social (an excellent collaborator). It's all open access.
“I’m a remarkable woman..always was, though none of you seemed to think so.”May Morris, English artist embroiderer, designer, feminist and socialist, dismayed by the lack of support for women artists founded the Women’s Guild of Arts, 1907 #womensart
I won’t be at the conference but am interested in your paper. I’m interested in “school histories” as #bookhistory material objects but don’t know much about the binding side.
Copies of Celebrating Women in Legal History, edited by Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland and Caroline Derry. The blue and purple cover shows a door opening onto bookshelves.
Table of contents, showing chapters by Jennifer Aston, Christine Anne George, Anne Logan, Lisa Cowan, Nina Krsljanin, and Valentina Cvetkovic-Dordevic.
Table of contents, showing chapters by Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, and Deborah Siddoway.
It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
Nice and beige for interior decoration, but articles were anything but beige!
Not knitting patterns, but sewing patterns , in a #bookhistory context. www.erudit.org/fr/revues/me...
Surprised and delighted today to find a review (by Courtney Smith) in @jbritishstudies.bsky.social of my *Eliza Orme’s Ambitions*. @openbookpublish.bsky.social
Thanks for this. On the subject of continuity, you made me think of what a colleague said about the pandemic — that she had never realized what a wonderful technology the classroom is.
Diahorrea, isn’t it? Happy new year, Bob.
Eliza Orme was born #otd in 1848. Famously sensible and formidably competent, she disliked the excesses of Victorian Christmas cards, preferring “a nice hearty letter”.
Just received my series editor’s copy of Queer Print Cultures. #bookhistory
utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....
Victorian periodicals research, old-school.
TLDR — but I did skim a bit , so thanks for the link.
Nervous History MA student starting a #Victorian Studies program that required one course in English. The one with familiar canonical names was full, so I had to take the one that introduced me to a bunch of writers I’d never heard of, but also #bookhistory.