Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France

Contents: Introduction; Contexts of female publication: Women's experiences as readers, owners and collectors of books; Women working in the book trades; Women publishing: theoretical and practical contexts; The struggle for textual control: Female authors in print; Strategies of female publication: Dynamic boundaries: Social status, geography and gender in publication; Domestic speech: Rhetorical strategies of family and household; In the margins: gender, textual relation and location; Conclusions; Appendix: A checklist of first and significant editions; Bibliography; Index.