Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Paper, Gender, and the History of Knowledge
  • Carla Bittel, Elaine Leong, and Christine von Oertzen; Part I. Beyond the Page: The Sociomaterial History of Paper; One. Letter Writing and Paper Connoisseurship in Elite Households in Early Modern England
  • Heather Wolfe; Two. Papering the Household: Paper, Recipes, and Everyday Technologies in Early Modern England
  • Elaine Leong; Three. The Sociomateriality of Waste and Scrap Paper in Eighteenth-Century England
  • Simon Werrett
  • Four. Paper Trials, Multiple Masculinities, and the Oeconomy of Honor
  • Gabriella SzalayPart II. Transcending Boundaries: Tools and Technologies; Five. Bookkeeping for Caring: Notebooks, Parchment Slips, and Enlightened Medical Arithmetic in Madrid's Foundling House
  • Elena Serrano; Six. Unpacking the Phrenological Toolkit: Knowledge and Identity in Antebellum America
  • Carla Bittel; Seven. Keeping Prussia's House in Order: Census Cards, Housewifery, and the State's Data Compilation
  • Christine von Oertzen
  • Eight. Tracing Paper, the Posture Sciences, and the Mapping of the Female Body
  • Beth LinkerPart III. Knowledge, Power, and the Everyday; Nine. A Letter Is a Paper House: Home, Family, and Natural Knowledge
  • Elizabeth Yale; Ten. Family Notebooks, Mnemotechnics, and the Rational Education of Margaret Monro
  • Matthew Daniel Eddy; Eleven. Papier-Mâché Anatomical Models: The Making of Reform and Empire in Nineteenth-Century France and Beyond
  • Anna Maerker; Twelve. Women Who Worked with Documents to Rationalize Reproduction
  • Dan Bouk
  • Afterword: Making and Using Paper in Late Imperial China: Comparative Reflections on Working and Knowing beyond the Page
  • Jacob EyferthNotes; Selected Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index