Women and Work in Early Modern Printing Houses. Family Firms in Antwerp, Douai and Leuven (1500-1700). KU Leuven
The early modern printing and publishing business was a man's world. The new technology of the printing press was associated with men's work, due to considerable start-up costs and associations with skilled work, literacy, and learned men. Why then, did early modern title pages regularly name women-led businesses as their place of production? This dissertation investigates how women participated in the production and sale of rare books and ...