Editorial

Abstract

Synopsis The editorial team's introduction to this special issue on ‘Feminisms and Print Culture, 1830s–1930s, in the Digital Age’ outlines key objectives of the workshop which gave rise to the papers that form the basis of this collection. The workshop's discussions helped to define the priorities and directions of the larger project on which we are embarking, and through which we intend to realize our larger aims in researching early women's movements and print media. Some of these aims include bringing interdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational perspectives to bear on the history of early women's movements; foregrounding the role of print media in the articulation, dissemination, and integration of feminist ideas and campaigns, as well as the opposition to them in this period; and employing electronic media to make these materials, both historic and critical, widely available. The focus on the intersection between early women's movements and print media highlights an integral connection between research perspectives and resources of value to feminist researchers and students pursuing the many and varied subjects within these areas. The importance of electronic scholarship to large-scale collaborative work in women's studies, consequently, is a central theme of this special issue. Our aim is to reproduce the strategies of feminist discourse and communication in the 19th and early 20th centuries by using electronic technologies to explore and disseminate knowledge of historic women's movements now and for future generations.