| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.2 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500–1800. Ed. by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x, 263 pp. $59.95, ISBN 978-0812240542.)
Reading Women enacts two of its own tropes: it is a scrapbook, a textualized cabinet of curiosities, and a sampler, providing models and the emulation that drives to the making of new models. This collection engages us with the materiality of a historically and textually locatable female reading, the power and presence of which emerges over three centuries of print culture.	1
The book is broken into three sections: "Pleasures and Prohibitions"; "Practices and Accomplishments"; and "Translation and Authorship." This structure does not simply reveal change; it suggests repetitions and continuities. The collection intentionally offers little reiteration of male strictures on women's reading. Most of the essays direct attention, first, to recovering what women did do and, secondly, to developing modes whereby we might understand women/'s reading.	. . .

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