Defining print culture for youth : the cultural work of children's literature / edited by Anne Lundin and Wayne A. Wiegand.

Papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America.

Introduction / Anne Lundin -- Reading and re-reading: the scrapbooks of girls growing into women, 1900-1930 / Susan Tucker -- Communism for kids: class, race, and gender in communist children's books in the United States / Paul C. Mishler -- Publishing pride: the Jim Crow series of Harlow Publishing Company / Louise S. Robbins -- The power of black and white: African Americans in late-nineteenth-century children's periodicals / Leslie R. Miller -- Defining democracy for youth through textbooks: controversy over the Rugg Social Studies Series in prewar America / Carole J. Trone -- "Being poor doesn't count": class, ethnicity, and democracy in American Girls' School Series, 1900-1920 / Kathleen Chamberlain -- Turning children readers into consumers: children's magazines and advertising, 1900-1920 -- Learning to be a woman: lessons from girl scouting / Rima D. Apple and Joanne Passet -- Kate Chopin and the birth of young adult fiction / Bonnie James Shaker -- Reading Nancy Drew in urban India: gender, postcolonialism, and memories of home / Radhika Parameswaran.