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Boundary Work in the Bazaar: the Women Booksellers of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market
No full textDaryaganj Sunday Book Market, popularly known as Daryaganj Sunday Patri Kitab Bazaar, is an informal weekly bazaar (market) for used and pirated books in Old Delhi. Recently relocated to a gated compound called Mahila Haat on Asaf Ali Road, the market survived for more than fifty years with books stacked on the sidewalks of Netaji Subhash Road and Asaf Ali Road (Fig. 11.1).1 Since its inception, the vendors of this market have relied on both vertical bonds of kinship and horizontal bonds of friendship to enable a dense locality-specific social network. The civic administrative units that supervise the city area in agreement with the central/national bodies of governance have formed laws and regulations that sanction a vendor their place in the local and professional community. In addition, the vendors have made their own internal definitions, or ‘boundaries’, based on what they see as the ‘traditional’ or the norm.2 In this article, I explore the explicitly acknowledged and implicitly assumed ways in which gender has played a role in the history of Daryaganj Sunday Book Market. With the help of my ethnographic research in the bazaar, I exam- ine the external boundaries created by the civic authorities and the internal boundaries constructed and sustained by the vendors at the bazaar, which altogether result into the ‘housewifization’ of women as ‘inauthentic’ members of this community
Gender and the book trades
No full textThis volume proposes a new and radically inclusive approach to the study of the book by using gender as a tool of analysis. While female authors and women in the book trades have long been studied, gender itself has yet to be explored as a methodology rather than a subject in book history. We argue that putting gender analysis into practice requires thinking inclusively about both the book world and the interactions of its participants from the beginning. With twenty-five pioneering case studies that stretch from colonial Peru to modern Delhi, using a variety of intersectional methodologies including network analysis, critical bibliography, and queer theory, Gender and the Book Trades sets out an innovative method of analysing the printed book
Gender and the book trades
No full textThis volume proposes a new and radically inclusive approach to the study of the book by using gender as a tool of analysis. While female authors and women in the book trades have long been studied, gender itself has yet to be explored as a methodology rather than a subject in book history. We argue that putting gender analysis into practice requires thinking inclusively about both the book world and the interactions of its participants from the beginning. With twenty-five pioneering case studies that stretch from colonial Peru to modern Delhi, using a variety of intersectional methodologies including network analysis, critical bibliography, and queer theory, Gender and the Book Trades sets out an innovative method of analysing the printed book
Learning your papist ABCs:gender and print in clandestine Catholic schools in the Dutch Republic
No full text(S)expurgation: Censoring images in Ovid’s Metamorphosis
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Women as book producers : the case of Nuremberg
No full textThis thesis explores the multifaceted roles in which women participated in the early modern book trade. Focusing on Nuremberg, home to many successful bookwomen, it examines how they crafted work identities and exercised agency in the printing trades, emphasizing the centrality of the family unit. This thesis reveals that not only were women involved in the book trade more frequently than hitherto acknowledged but that their participation was varied and often invisible. Locality is key to understanding the multitude of factors that both promoted and restricted women’s work. The thesis begins by reconstructing the Nuremberg print trade, looking at the local market, censorship, and patron demands that shaped it. These considerations dictated the occupational experiences and business practises of the bookmen and bookwomen working in the trade. Chapter two explores the specific gendered and legal realities women faced while engaged in this trade. Regional marriage customs, inheritance law and guild organizations defined women’s rights to property, work and legal sovereignty. The second half of the thesis presents two case studies. Drawing on a previously unexamined collection of archival sources, the first study explores the sixteenth-century careers of Katherine Gerlachin and Catherine Dietrichin, and how they actively forged work identities separate to that of wife or widow. The second case, from the seventeenth century, inspects the Endter family business, revealing that, even when not listed on imprints, women served crucial roles in larger familial enterprises. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate that women’s work can only be fully revealed by understanding that the early modern book trade was composed of family units in which women operated as vital members. As mother, wife and daughter, women took on the jobs of craftsmen, office managers, business leaders, shareholders, investors, or a combination of these tasks to play major roles in their familial businesses."This work was supported by the generous University of St Andrews St Leonard’s Scholarship, the Universal Short Title Catalogue Scholarship and the Printing Historical Society." -- Fundin
(S)expurgation: Censoring images in Ovid’s Metamorphosis
No full textCategory: Blog- Preserving the World's Rarest Book
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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