How Women Invented Bookclubs.
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The first ever recorded bookclubs were created by women. From the British Colonies to Paris to Mexico, women's bookclubs have had an impact on the rise of literacy, feminist thought, and even changed the face of the publishing industry. But how did it happen?
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Sources:
Malini Ghose. “Literacy, Power and Feminism.” Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 37, no. 17, 2002, pp. 1615–20. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4412039. Accessed 26 June 2023.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2010/09/350122
Lucy Delap, Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000, History Workshop Journal, Volume 81, Issue 1, Spring 2016, Pages 171–196.
Regis, Pamela. Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present. University of Michigan Press, 2007.
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED496343.pdf
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