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Toronto Trailblazers

Women in Canadian Publishing

Ruth Panofsky

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English
University of Toronto Press
12 September 2019
Toronto Trailblazers explores the influence of seven key women who, despite pervasive gender bias, helped advance a modern literary culture for Canada.

Publisher Irene Clarke, scholarly editors Eleanor Harman and Francess Halpenny, trade editors Sybil Hutchinson, Claire Pratt, and Anna Porter, and literary agent Bella Pomer made the most of their vocational prospects, first by securing their respective positions and then by refining their professional methods. Individually, each woman asserted her agency by adapting orthodox ways of working within Canadian publishing. Collectively, their overarching approach emerged as a feminist practice. Through their vision and method these trailblazing women disrupted the dominant masculine paradigm and helped transform publishing practice in Canada.
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Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 231mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   540g
ISBN:   9781487505578
ISBN 10:   1487505574
Series:   Studies in Book and Print Culture
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ruth Panofsky is a professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University.

Reviews for Toronto Trailblazers: Women in Canadian Publishing

"""Drawing on extensive archival research and interviews as well as a wide range of published sources, Ruth Panofsky adds the often-overlooked dimension of gender to the history of Canadian cultural production and provides important new insights into the complex workings of English-Canadian publishing houses.""--Carole Gerson, Professor of English, Simon Fraser University ""Taking a largely biographical approach, and featuring seven case studies that follow the careers of leading female figures in Canadian publishing, Toronto Trailblazers addresses an important, under-researched, and interesting topic.""--Claire Squires, Professor of Publishing Studies, University of Stirling"


  • Short-listed for 2021 Heritage Toronto Book Award 2021 (Canada)

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