This conference will address the world of print that women have inherited, constructed, and consumed over the last 125 years. Barbara Sicherman, Kenan Professor of American Institutes and Values at Trinity College, will deliver the keynote address. A number of additional special presentations are also planned. Papers should focus on and illuminate the interaction between the reader and printed materials (e.g. books, periodicals, newspapers, comic books, etc.) aimed at or produced and read by women. Studies dealing with class, religion, journalism, feminism, immigrants, racial and sexual minorities, radicals, etc., are especially welcome. Studies of single group experiences and studies that compare the historical sociology of print in the lives of women located at the periphery of power are of great interest to the Center.

For information contact James P. Danky, Co-Director Center for Print Culture in Modern America,State Historical Society of Wisconsin