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The feminist bookstore movement : lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability / Kristen Hogan.
LIBRA HQ75.6.U5 H64 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hogan, Kristen, 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lesbian feminism--United States--History--20th century.
- Lesbian feminism.
- Women's bookstores--United States--History--20th century.
- Women's bookstores.
- Feminist literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Feminist literature.
- Anti-racism--United States--History--20th century.
- Anti-racism.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxvii, 272 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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 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 Women's Bookstore, and Old Wives' Tales in San Francisco, and in the essential Feminist Bookstore News, bookwomen changed people's 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Dykes with a vision, 1970-1976
- Revolutionaries in a capitalist system, 1976-1980
- Accountable to each other, 1980-1983
- The feminist shelf, a transnational project, 1984-1993
- Economics and antiracist alliances, 1993-2003
- Epilogue: Feminist remembering.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822361107
- 0822361108
- 9780822361299
- 0822361299
- OCLC:
- 915120533
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