Book clubs

Book clubs are everywhere these days. And women talk about the clubs they belong to with surprising emotion. But why are the clubs so important to them? And what do the women discuss when they meet? To answer questions like these, Elizabeth Long spent years observing and participating in women'...

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Permalink: http://skupni.nsk.hr/Record/ffzg.KOHA-OAI-FFZG:151524/TOC
Glavni autor: Long, Elizabeth (-)
Vrsta građe: Knjiga
Jezik: eng
Impresum: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, cop. 2003.
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  • On the social nature of reading
  • Nineteenth-century white women's reading groups : literary inspiration and social reform
  • Between past and present : introductory reflections on the changing nature of women's reading groups
  • Exploring the social world of Houston's reading groups
  • Book selection : negotiating group identity through literature
  • Conversing with books, fashioning subjectivity, dealing with difference
  • Reading groups and the challenge of mass communication and marketing
  • At the end