From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminism's most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this storyùmostly lesbians and including women of colorùmeasured their success not by profit, but by developing theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability. At bookstores like BookWoman in Austin, the Toronto WomenÆs Bookstore, and Old WivesÆ Tales in San Francisco, and in the essential Feminist Bookstore News, bookwomen changed peopleÆs lives and the world. In retelling their stories, Hogan not only shares the movement's tools with contemporary queer antiracist feminist activists and theorists, she gives us a vocabulary, strategy, and legacy for thinking through today's feminisms.
- | Author: Kristen Hogan
- | Publisher: Duke University Press Books
- | Publication Date: Apr 15, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 328 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
- | ISBN-10: 0822361108
- | ISBN-13: 9780822361107
