Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface: haute literacy
  • Introduction: literacy, gender, and the rhetorical work of editing
  • Between the sheets: editing and the making of a New Yorker ethos
  • "The precision of knives," or more than just commas
  • Mademoiselle, The New Yorker, and other women's magazines
  • Conclusion: lady editors and the embodiment of style
  • Afterword: Katharine White's bequest, or ruminations on an archive.