Book Clubs : : Women and the Uses of Reading in Everyday Life
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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.
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PUBLISHED
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Year Published: 2003
Description: xx, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0226492621 (pbk.) :
0226492613 (hbk. : alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Case studies.
Women -- Books and reading -- Case studies.
Reading -- Social aspects -- Case studies.