Description
From the 1970s through the 1990s more than one hundred feminist bookstores built a transnational network that helped shape some of feminisms most complex conversations. Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movements rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory. The bookwomen at the heart of this story-mostly lesbians and including women of color-measured 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 Womens Bookstore, and Old Wives Tales in San Francisco, and in the essential Feminist Bookstore News, bookwomen changed peoples lives and the world. In retelling their stories, Hogan not only shares the movements tools with contemporary queer antiracist feminist activists and theorists, she gives us a vocabulary, strategy, and legacy for thinking through todays feminisms.
Author: Kristen Hogan
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 04/15/2016
Pages: 328
Weight: 1lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780822361299
Language: English
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