| Description |
1 online resource (x, 310 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed July 2, 2019) |
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Paper -- History
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Papermaking -- History
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Written communication -- History
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Written communication -- Sex differences -- History
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Technology and women -- History
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Knowledge, Theory of -- History
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Knowledge management.
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Knowledge Management
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sociology of knowledge.
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SCIENCE -- General.
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Knowledge management
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Knowledge, Sociology of
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Paper
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Papermaking
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Technology and women
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Written communication
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Written communication -- Sex differences
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bittel, Carla Jean, editor
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Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien, 1975- editor.
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Oertzen, Christine von, editor
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| ISBN |
9780822986805 |
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0822986809 |
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