Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xv
5. Editors’ note xvi
6. General Introduction Making Fields: Women in Publishing 1
7. Part I Women as Editors and Publishers (Books)
8. Introduction 21
9. Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing 26
10. 1 Black Women Publishers in the UK 49
11. 2 Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and the Dun Emer Press: Irish, British and Transatlantic Connections 78
12. 3 Women and Modernist Small Presses: Virginia Woolf, Anaïs Nin, Nancy Cunard, Caresse Crosby, Una Marson 104
13. 4 ‘Mere girls’: Grace Hogarth and Women Pathbreakers in Transatlantic Twentieth-Century Children’s Publishing 123
14. 5 Cultural Practices and the Public Arena: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Women Editors 140
15. 6 Democratising Culture and Building a New Consciousness: The Transformative Female Publishers of Post-Franco Spain 161
16. 7 Translating and Publishing across the Channel: Natalia Ginzburg’s Career from Einaudi to Carcanet 178
17. 8 ‘I am not a cherry on top of the cake’: Inge Schönthal Feltrinelli as Publisher 198
18. 9 Toni Morrison at Random House 215
19. 10 Intersectional Feminist Poetics at the Kitchen Table Press 235
20. 11 Women of Colour in British Young Adult Fiction: Subverting Stereotypes and Expanding Identities 254
21. Part II Women and the Periodical Press: Editors / Journalists /Activists
22. Introduction 279
23. Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing 283
24. 12 ‘Unnamed but ever-present consulting editor’: A Feminist Problem 288
25. 13 The Expansive Vision of Jessie Redmon Fauset 309
26. 14 A Literary Bridge between Italy and the United States: Ester, Natalia and Lea Danesi 323
27. 15 Noémia de Sousa (1926–2002): Poetry, Gender and Journal Cultures 341
28. 16 Periodical Publishing and the Independent Press: Nancy Chambers, Thimble Press and Signal: Approaches to Children’s Books 356
29. 17 Networks of Conflict and Mediation: Negotiating Socialist Feminism in the Second-Wave Periodicals Red Rag and Scarlet Women 373
30. Part III Women Workers within Publishing
31. Introduction 393
32. Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing 396
33. 18 Fitzi’s Library: Feminist Bibliography and Anarchist Print Culture 405
34. 19 Navigating Publishing in the 1930s: Gwenda David, Translator, Reader and Agent 422
35. 20 Like Needle and Thread: How Women Connected Italy to America at the House of Farrar, Straus 439
36. 21 Carmen Balcells: The Agent of the Latin American Literary Boom 455
37. 22 Women’s Creative Labour Contribution to the American Christian Publishing Industry 471
38. 23 Women Literary Agents in Canada, 1950–2000 487
39. 24 Living the Dream: Feminist Book Publisher Memoirs and the Business of Anglo-American Feminist Life Writing in the Twenty-First Century 504
40. Part IV Making / Selling / Distributing
41. Introduction 523
42. Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing 527
43. 25 Women Editing and Illustrating in Popular Archaeology Publishing 539
44. 26 A Room of One’s Own on the High Street: Women Booksellers in Early Twentieth- Century Britain and the United States 557
45. 27 Finding Miss Weaver: James Joyce and the Patron of Ulysses 573
46. 28 Women in Type: Investigating Women’s Role in Type Drawing Offices, 1910–1990 594
47. 29 Marie Neurath: Designing and Publishing Isotype Books for Children 618
48. 30 Building Feminist Institutions: Women in Distribution, the Feminist Press and Cultures of Small Press Circulation 630
49. 31 Virago Modern Classics: The Making of a Reprint Series 647
50. 32 Murder at The Women’s Press: Transnational Accomplices and the Feminist Crime Scene 662
51. 33 Shifting Agency: Feminist Publishing Collectives in Aotearoa New Zealand 676
52. Notes on Contributors 694
53. Index 702
54. Plate 729