In Into Print Leah Chang explores how market tensions, the intellectual and financial interests of printers, editors, and writers, the material features of printed volumes, as well as the content of the text helped shape the idea of female authorship in sixteenth and early seventeenth-century France. Focusing on how the female author's gender, authority, and appeal are crafted in the process of producing the material volume, Chang shows how books purportedly written by women are vital to the study of early modern ideas about gender and authorship, whether or not women actually wrote the texts. Distinguishing the female author as a figure within the printed book from the historical writer who composes the text, Chang rethinks the significance of female authorship in early modern France and shows how female authors are as much the creation of book production as are the volumes published in their names.