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Singer, Amy. "Subversive Children’s Stories: The Work of American Book Women, 1930-1950" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City, Aug 11, 2007 <Not Available>. 2010-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p184079_index.html>

Singer, A. E. , 2007-08-11 "Subversive Children’s Stories: The Work of American Book Women, 1930-1950" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, TBA, New York, New York City Online <PDF>. 2010-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p184079_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: With very few exceptions, the publication and distribution of American juvenile literature has been a matriarchal locus of cultural activity that has received little recognition or scholarly attention outside of a small professional network. The first and ‘greatest’ (according to industry insiders and historians, and according to my empirical analysis) editors of children’s books were women, as were the children’s librarians who placed newly-created books in children’s hands. In spite of the ‘womanly virtues’ that permitted these women access to their jobs—since women were thought to know what children would want to read, and were considered appropriate workers within this low-status division of the publishing world—they created children’s departments that contributed significantly to the profits earned by their companies. Within the sex-segregated and inconsequential (to the men at the top of the publishing hierarchy) professional world of children’s book publishers and librarians, I find that these women worked together to produce and distribute books that can be seen as subversive and enduring. Long before the influence of the modern American feminist movement, this specific group of women collaborated in the creation of a market for a specific kind of children’s literature: they edited these books, rewarded them with prizes, sold them to libraries, and delivered them to the children who, they imagined, would benefit from them.

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