PUB 480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Radical Feminism, Print Culture, Typewriter

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Publishing Program
• Course: PUB 480
• Professor: Hannah McGregor

Document Summary

Can look to early emergence of print culture, especially pamphlets and newspapers, to understand how new media reframe terms of discourse and create new identities. Most forms of media transformation were radical in their moment: afterwards, we look back and say that it happened smoothly. Women are there the whole time: often absent for how we tell this history. Women have been involved in printing and publishing since the 15th century, but tend to be erased from the history of the book. Methodological problem: models for publishing on successful communication, disregarding works that are unwritten, rejected for publication, refused retail space, denied distribution. Women start taking up moving typewriter quite quickly but we don"t have samples of this because it wasn"t published: we can"t study things that were denied being published specifically things written by women. How all social agents fit together as a whole.