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By Kristen Hogan

ISBN-10: 0822361299

ISBN-13: 9780822361299

From the Seventies in the course of the Nineteen Nineties a couple of hundred feminist bookstores outfitted a transnational community that assisted in shaping a few of feminism's most intricate conversations. Kristen Hogan lines the feminist book place movement's upward push and eventual fall, restoring its radical paintings to public feminist reminiscence. The bookwomen on the center of this story—mostly lesbians and together with girls of color—measured their good fortune now not by way of revenue, yet by way of constructing theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist responsibility. At bookstores like BookWoman in Austin, the Toronto Women’s book place, and outdated other halves’ stories in San Francisco, and within the crucial Feminist book shop information, bookwomen replaced people’s lives and the area. In retelling their tales, Hogan not just stocks the movement's instruments with modern queer antiracist feminist activists and theorists, she offers us a vocabulary, technique, and legacy for pondering via modern day feminisms.
 

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30 Here Seajay emphasizes bookwomen’s support for feminist books; feminist bookwomen ­were able to get “what existed” and wanted to “grab” feminist books as soon as they ­were available. She also describes the bookwomen’s prioritization of texts by women of color. Because even in their earliest days feminist bookstores functioned as distributors of both in-­and out-­of-­print texts, they became a unique site of literary activism, maintaining a feminist history and dialogue not visible in rec­ords like cata­logs or Books In Print or the inventories of mainstream bookstores.

Three women who had visited Labyris in the Village imagined starting a different kind of bookstore. Karyn London, a self-­described socialist feminist just out of college, and Eleanor Olds Batchelder, a linguistics scholar interested in supporting feminist business, met in a consciousness raising group and became lovers. 35 She met Batchelder when they collaborated on the New York Radical Feminists’ Motherhood Conference and Speakout. London, Batchelder, and Romero wanted a bookstore more broadly inclusive of other women, in part because of their own identities.

While the presses worked to publish, reprint, and distribute women’s work, the bookstores gathered this physical evidence for the energy of women’s authorship and artwork. Dykes with a Vision 9 In Oakland, this productivity, this attempt to reshape feminist knowledge, was fueled by the relational practices within organizations. Judy Grahn and her then-­lover Wendy Cadden intentionally committed the Women’s Press to transracial collaboration. Grahn explained: Both Wendy and I really believe in multi-­cultural society—so we made sure that the press was multi-­cultural and expanded our membership strategically.

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