Book clubs : women and the uses of reading in everyday life / Elizabeth Long.

Author: Long, Elizabeth, 1944-

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.

ISBN: 0226492613 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0226492621 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Description: xx, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject: Book clubs (Discussion groups) United States Case studies.
Women United States Books and reading Case studies.
Reading Social aspects United States Case studies.

Contents: 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.