Modern Print Activism in the United States

Herausgeber: Schreiber, Rachel

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Produktbeschreibung

The explosion of print culture that occurred in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century activated the widespread use of print media to promote social and political activism. Exploring this phenomenon, the essays in Modern Print Activism in the United States focus on specific groups, individuals, and causes that relied on print as a vehicle for activism. They also take up the variety of print forms in which calls for activism have appeared, including fiction, editorials, letters to the editor, graphic satire, and non-periodical media such as pamphlets and calendars. As the contributors show, activists have used print media in a range of ways, not only in expected applications such as calls for boycotts and protests, but also for less expected aims such as the creation of networks among readers and to the legitimization of their causes. At a time when the golden age of print appears to be ending, Modern Print Activism in the United States argues that print activism should be studied as a specifically modernist phenomenon and poses questions related to the efficacy of print as a vehicle for social and political change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 577g
• ISBN-13: 9781409454779
• ISBN-10: 1409454770
• Artikelnr.: 41249534

Autorenporträt

Rachel Schreiber is Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the San Francisco Art Institute, California, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 Print Culture and the Construction of Radical
Identity: Juliet H. Severance and the Reform Press in Late
Nineteenth-Century America, Joanne E. Passet; Chapter 2 Changing Feelings:
Fallen Women, Sentimentality, and the Activist Press, María Carla Sánchez;
Chapter 3 "She Will Spike War's Gun": The Anti-War Graphic Satire of the
American Suffrage Press, Rachel Schreiber; Chapter 4 Publishing a "Fighting
Spirit": Marianne Moore in the Little Magazines During WWI, Nikolaus
Wasmoen1Permission for the use of the lines from "The Fish," as found in
folder I:02:04 of the Marianne Moore Collection, located at the Rosenbach
Museum and Library, is granted by David M. Moore, Esquire, Administrator of
the Literary Estate of Marianne Moore. All rights reserved. Unpublished
letters by Hilda Doolittle (H.D.): Copyright 2012 by The Schaffner Family
Foundation. Used by permission; Chapter 5 Holiday Activism: Good
Housekeeping and the Meaning of Mother's Day, Katharine Antolini; Chapter 6
"Give this copy of the Kourier magazine to your friend. You will help him.
You will also help society":1920s KKK Print, Propaganda, and Publicity,
Craig Fox; Chapter 7 Productive Fiction and Propaganda: The Development and
Uses of Communist Party Pamphlet Literature, Trevor Joy Sangrey; Chapter 8
Containment Culture: The Cold War in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1946-1959,
Diana Cucuz; Chapter 9 Challenging the Anti-Pleasure League: Physique
Pictorial and the Cultivation of Gay Politics, Whitney Strub; Chapter 10
Calendar Art: How the 1968 SNCC Wall Calendar Brought Activism Indoors,
Lián Amaris; Chapter 11 Amazon Quarterly: Pre-Zine Print Culture and the
Politics of Separatism, Tirza True Latimer; Chapter 12 Crafting Public
Cultures in Feminist Periodicals, Elizabeth Groeneveld;