Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 310 pages)
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illustrations (some color)
ISBN:
9780822986805
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0822986809
Uniform Title:
Working with paper (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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Four. Paper Trials, Multiple Masculinities, and the Oeconomy of Honor -- Gabriella SzalayPart 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
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Eight. Tracing Paper, the Posture Sciences, and the Mapping of the Female Body -- Beth LinkerPart 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
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Afterword: Making and Using Paper in Late Imperial China: Comparative Reflections on Working and Knowing beyond the Page -- Jacob EyferthNotes; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Language:
English
Author information:
Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien 1975-
Author information:
Oertzen, Christine von
Author information:
Bittel, Carla
