The feminist bookstore movement : lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability / Kristen Hogan.

"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 publi...

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Main Author: Hogan, Kristen, 1976- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Durham [North Carolina] : Duke University Press, 2016.
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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" -- From the publisher.
Physical Description:xxvii, 272 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-260) and index.
ISBN:9780822361107
0822361108
9780822361299
0822361299