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Book clubs : women and the uses of reading in everyday life
Title:
Book clubs : women and the uses of reading in everyday life
Author:
Long, Elizabeth, 1944-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2003]

©2003
Physical Description:
xx, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
On the social nature of reading -- Nineteenth-century white women's reading groups : literary inspiration and social reform -- Between past and present : introductory reflections on the changing nature of women's reading groups -- Exploring the social world of Houston's reading groups -- Book selection : negotiating group identity through literature -- Conversing with books, fashioning subjectivity, dealing with difference -- Reading groups and the challenge of mass communication and marketing -- At the end.
ISBN:
9780226492612

9780226492629
Format :
Book