It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy.

Another example of daughters‘ essential roles in bookselling families: From 1581-2, Middelburg bookseller Dierick van Helmondt sent his daughter Janne to buy books in Antwerp and settle his accounts for him (his son worked in the business too) (Museum Plantin-Moretus Arch 60 f 2)

I'm working on a chapter about fictitious women in early modern paratexts and here's something I thought I'd never see: the widow of Susanna Soldaten-crans bravely carrying on her late wife's business in 1662? I love false imprints (USTC 1844238)

Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) https://t.co/vYgaW0G2zN

A Fathers Advice to his Son at the University (Edinburgh, 1693), cautions ‘the Carriage of a Naughty Woman‘: loud, stubborn and in the streets. It was printed/sold by Agnes Campbell & Martha Stevenson, both of whom ‘loud and stubborn‘ doesn't even begin to cover! (USTC 3126281)

no one has ever understood the world like david lynch did. how lucky we are that he showed us what he saw

the only thing i can think right now is how dearly his films held the lives of women: to say the woman is both the only subject of cinema and that lynch's movies are always about movies, is to also know his narratives gave broken women around the world true glimpses of survival.

🖋️!Nueva publicación! Por fin está disponible mi capítulo sobre la gestión de la biblioteca de las duquesas de Almodóvar y los peligros de los libros @CIRGEN1 @MonicaBoluferP Thanks to @elisewatson_ and Jessica Farrell-Jobst😊 https://t.co/MmoDT8VGVJ @HistoriaMod @TramosXIX

Thrilled to announce the publication of my chapter on nonconformist women in the Restoration book trade! Huge thanks to @elisewatson_ and Jessica Farrel-Jobst for putting together this brilliant volume on Gender and the Book Trade. https://t.co/Dm5OnKU6Yu

If you are interested in any of these chapters, I'm sure the authors will be very willing to share their brilliant research. Please consider ordering a copy for your library or, even better, reviewing the book for a copy of your own. Thank you for reading a long thread! #herbook

In Part 8: Towards Inclusive Histories, Kirk Melnikoff examines London women's involvement in book-trade wills, Kate Ozment and @kandicedarcia explore approaches to gendered marketing and authorship, and Malcolm Noble pioneers queer ways to interact with books (pp. 430, 450, 476)

Part 7: Gendered Perception and Reality flies through the 16-20c, with the collections in the Hispanic monarchy (@LauGuinot), the works of Esther Inglis (@EMHerstory), Wilfrid Voynich and Belle da Costa Greene (@NataliaFantetti), and bookbinders’ unions (Susan McElrath). p. 352:

Part 6: Crafting Identity explores facets of religion and gender through nonconformist stationers in London (@VCalsoni), incunabular Germanic prayer manuals (@RabiaGregory), and rulebreaking Catholic women in the Dutch Republic (my own chapter). From Bruder Klaus (1487), p. 314:

In Part 5: Shaping Collections: Gender and Value, @alextheknitter examines affordances in Navarre, @valesonz describes professional roles in a Genoese convent, and @JojoWeis reconstructs a remarkable collection in Wolfenbüttel. Remarkable detective work and #dataviz on display!

Part 4: The Bookshop and the Marketplace moves us between Paris, Delhi, and Leiden, from the bookshop salon (Matthew Chambers) to the Daryaganj Book Market (@aampannaa) to Luchtmans (J.C. Rozendaal), as we examine women as booksellers and buyers from the 18c to the present.

In Part 3: Editorial Interventions, the inimitable combination of @charleymwrites and @helen189 tackles the legacies of women’s labour as editors, anthologisers, and polymaths by looking at Mary Hays and Constantia Grierson.

Part 2: Publishing Gender, examines the role of gender in publishing in very different contexts: in South Africa (Elizabeth Le Roux), in 20c paperback publishing (@arkhamlibrarian), and 19c/20c Britain (Sarah Lubelski). Gendered expectations manifested in the workplace (p. 100):

In Part 1: Familiar Networks, family networks of printers are examined in Nuremberg by Jessica Farrell-Jobst, in the Iberian Atlantic by @nataliamaillard and Montserrat Cachero, and in colonial Peru by @AgnesGehbald. In these stories, printing is an action done by a community.

In our introduction, Jessica Farrell-Jobst, @NoraEpstein and I argue that it is time to take gender seriously as a methodology in book history. You can read the chapter here (or ask any of us for a PDF): https://t.co/XplPRIDUZI

Had the most magical week pre-holidays at the @NewberryLibrary: huge thanks to @NoraEpstein @DrKarrSchmidt and all the staff for such a warm welcome! Check out that double volvelle 👀 (Newberry Wing ZP 646 .R57 & Case NE 1070 .S33 1648)