Volume 40, Nos. 1-2 (2023)
Contents
Editor’s Note
Susan Tomlinson
On Culture
Pauline E. Hopkins and the Black Feminist Editorial Imperative to Remember
Jocelyn K. Moody
Essays
“So Go to Editing”: Mary Ann Shadd Cary and the Liminality of Editorship and Authorship
Demetra McBrayer
“Her Voice Was Heard”: The Antebellum Abortion Archive and the “Memoir of Zulma Marache”
Nicole C. Livengood
Androgyny and Desire: Margaret Fuller, Julia Ward Howe, and Fractured Trans Archives
Eagan S. Dean
Woven Whiteness in Lucy Larcom’s “Weaving”
Kristin Allukian
Speculative Genealogies: Global Infertility and the Biopolitics of the Fertility Dystopia
Stephanie Peebles Tavera
Queer Feminism in Djuna Barnes’s Journalism
Leslie Petty
“Home Wenches”: Queer Domesticity and the Colonial Revival in Fannie Hurst’s Imitation of Life
Lisa M. Walker
Legacy Profile
Sophia Louisa Little (1799–1893)
Sarah C. Holmes
Excerpt from Thrice Through the Furnace: A Tale of the Times of the Iron Hoof
Sophia L. Little
Legacy Forum
The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers: Supporting Feminist Recovery Projects in the Digital Age
Introduction
Karin Dalziel, Jessica DeSpain, Jina DuVernay, Melissa Homestead, Kristen Lillvis, Kezia Miller, Emily Rau, and Margaret K. Smith
Creating Ethical and Sustainable Collaborations in Digital Recovery
Margaret K. Smith
Cultivation and Sustainability with Student Collaborators: Anne Hampton Brewster’s Philadelphia Evening Bulletin Letters from Rome, 1869–1870
Etta M. Madden and Alyssah Morrison
Recovering a Future Artifact: The Winnifred Eaton Archive and a Genealogy of Care
Sydney Lines and Joey Takeda
ArchivalGossip and the Digital Recovery of Nineteenth-Century Tattle Tales
Katrin Horn and Selina Foltinek
Book Reviews
Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies, edited by the Keywords Feminist Editorial Collective
Elizabeth Blake
New England Women Writers, Secularity, and the Federalist Politics of Church and State, by Gretchen Murphy
Ashley Reed
Faith in Exposure: Privacy and Secularism in the Nineteenth-Century United States, by Justine Murison
Philip Gould
Emily Dickinson’s Music Book and the Musical Life of an American Poet, by George Boziwick
Gerard Holmes
Of One Blood; or, The Hidden Self, by Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, edited by Eurie Dahn and Brian Sweeney
Nadine M. Knight
The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West, edited by Susan Bernadin
Laura Laffrado
The Politics of Black Joy: Zora Neale Hurston and Neo-Abolitionism, by Lindsey Stewart
Nicole Morris Johnson
Single Lives: Modern Women in Literature, Culture, and Film, edited by Katherine Fama and Jorie Lagerwey
Katherine Fusco
Imagining Gender, Nation, and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s, by Rachael Alexander
Louise Kane
Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century America, by Christine Pawley
Jody Mason
Radicals: Audacious Writings by American Women, 1830–1930. Volume 1: Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, and Volume 2: Memoir, Essays, and Oratory, edited by Meredith Stabel and Zachary Turpin
Windy Counsell Petrie
Three Midwestern Playwrights: How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre, by Marcia Noe
Casey Kayser
Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers, by Heather A. Fox
Alison Arant
The New View from Cane River: Critical Essays on Kate Chopin’s At Fault, edited by Heather Ostman
Bonnie James Shaker
Eudora Welty and Mystery: Hidden in Plain Sight, edited by Jacob Agner and Harriet Pollack
Rebecca L. Harrison
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