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Women and Letterpress Printing 1920-2020: Gendered Impressions

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Women and Letterpress Printing 1920-2020: Gendered Impressions
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Claire Battershill
SeriesElements in Publishing and Book Culture
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:75
Dimensions(mm): Height 176,Width 126
Category/GenreLiterature - history and criticism
ISBN/Barcode 9781009219327
ClassificationsDewey:686.2312
Audience
General
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 23 June 2022
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. Drawing on examples from modernist writer/printers of the 1920s to literary book artists of the early 21st, it offers a way of thinking about the feminist historiography of printing as we confront the presence and particular character of letterpress in a digital age. This Element is divided into four sections: the first, 'Historicizing' traces the critical histories of women and print through to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The second section, 'Learning,' offers an analysis of some of the modes of discourse and training through which women and gender minorities have learned the craft of printing. The third section, 'Individualizing' offers brief biographical vignettes. The fourth section, 'Writing,' focuses on printers' own written reflections about letterpress. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.