TY - BOOK ID - 77898408 TI - Reading women AU - Phegley, Jennifer AU - Badia, Janet PY - 2006 SN - 1281992208 9786611992200 1442679034 9781442679030 9780802089281 0802089283 0802089283 0802094872 9780802094872 9781281992208 6611992200 PB - Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press DB - UniCat KW - Women and literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - Reading in literature. KW - Women in art. KW - Reading in art. KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Literature KW - Sociology of culture KW - Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality KW - Painting KW - Fiction KW - Thematology KW - Sociology of literature KW - anno 1800-1899 KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - Reading habits KW - Popular culture KW - Literary criticism KW - Writers KW - Images of women KW - Book UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77898408 AB - Literary and popular culture has often focused its attention on women readers, particularly since early Victorian times. In Reading Women, an esteemed group of new and established scholars provides a close study of the evolution of the woman reader by examining a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century media, including Antebellum scientific treatises, Victorian paintings, and Oprah Winfrey's televised book club, as well as the writings of Charlotte Brontë, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Zora Neale Hurston.Attending especially to what, how, and why women read, Reading Women brings together a rich array of subjects that sheds light on the defining role the woman reader has played in the formation not only of literary history, but of British and American culture. The contributors break new ground by focusing on the impact representations of women readers have had on understandings of literacy and certain reading practices, the development of book and print culture, and the categorization of texts into high and low cultural forms. ER -