Working with paper : gendered practices in the history of knowledge
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paper, Gender, and the History of Knowledge - Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen -- Part I. Beyond the Page: The Sociomaterial History of Paper -- One. Letter Writing and Paper Connoisseurship in Elite Households in Early Moder...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press,
2019
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| Schlagworte: | Paper Papermaking Written communication Knowledge, Theory of Written communication-History.. Papermaking-History.. Paper-History.. Papermaking-History. Written communication-History. Paper-History. mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paper, Gender, and the History of Knowledge - Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen -- Part I. Beyond the Page: The Sociomaterial History of Paper -- One. Letter Writing and Paper Connoisseurship in Elite Households in Early Modern England - Heather Wolfe -- Two. Papering the Household: Paper, Recipes, and Everyday Technologies in Early Modern England - Elaine Leong -- Three. The Sociomateriality of Waste and Scrap Paper in Eighteenth-Century England - Simon Werrett -- Four. Paper Trials, Multiple Masculinities, and the Oeconomy of Honor - Gabriella Szalay -- Part II. Transcending Boundaries: Tools and Technologies -- Five. Bookkeeping for Caring: Notebooks, Parchment Slips, and Enlightened Medical Arithmetic in Madrid's Foundling House - Elena Serrano -- Six. Unpacking the Phrenological Toolkit: Knowledge and Identity in Antebellum America - Carla Bittel -- Seven. Keeping Prussia's House in Order: Census Cards, Housewifery, and the State's Data Compilation - Christine von Oertzen -- Eight. Tracing Paper, the Posture Sciences, and the Mapping of the Female Body - Beth Linker -- Part III. Knowledge, Power, and the Everyday -- Nine. A Letter Is a Paper House: Home, Family, and Natural Knowledge - Elizabeth Yale -- Ten. Family Notebooks, Mnemotechnics, and the Rational Education of Margaret Monro - Matthew Daniel Eddy -- Eleven. Papier-Mâché Anatomical Models: The Making of Reform and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France and Beyond - Anna Maerker -- Twelve. Women Who Worked with Documents to Rationalize Reproduction - Dan Bouk -- Afterword: Making and Using Paper in Late Imperial China: Comparative Reflections on Working and Knowing beyond the Page - Jacob Eyferth -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (337 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780822986805 0822986809 9780822945598 0822945592 |