Going Public: Women and Publishing in Early Modern France

by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith (Editor), Dena Goodman (Editor)

The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labor-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of government and a shifting political culture are severely testing the ability of the public sector to meet demands for increased accountability and expanded services.Especially in an age of knowledge workers, the traditional division between labor and management regarding leadership and work may no longer be viable. Going Public examines the forces affecting labor and management and the prospects for adopting service-oriented cooperative relationships as a key strategy for meeting the expanded demands on the public sector.  Robert R. Albright, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Lorenzo Bordogna, University of Milan; Jonathan Brock, University of Washington; John F. Burton Jr., Rutgers University; Adrienne E. Eaton, Rutgers University; Stephen Goldsmith, Harvard University; Jeffrey H. Keefe, Rutgers University; Charles Kerchner, Claremont Graduate School; David B. Lipsky, Cornell University; Martin H. Malin, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Marick F. Masters, University of Pittsburgh; Sonia Ospina, New York University; Terry Thomason, University of Rhode Island; Robert M. Tobias, American University; Paula B. Voos, Rutgers University; Allon Yaroni, New York University

Genres: Nonfiction

300 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1995

About the author

Elizabeth C. Goldsmith is a professor of French and director of the study abroad curriculum at Boston University. She has written books on literature in the age of Louis XIV, focusing on letter correspondences and women's writing. She teaches courses on seventeenth-century theater and the novel, travel writing, and historical fiction.

Reviews

[dejah_thoris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another edited volume of essays, this time on publishing in Eighteenth Century France. Much of the analysis covers what I would expect but seeing the diverse ways women used print to facilitate their own ends is fairly interesting. I especially enjoyed the piece on Madame du Coudray who published several editions of her midwife manual, which she sold while instructing country girls on how to properly assist in childbirth. And of course, Norberg's essay on Choiseul-Meuse as the first female erotic French novelist was incredibly interesting.