{"product_id":"the-feminist-bookstore-movement-9780822361107","title":"The Feminist Bookstore Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and fall, showing how the women at the heart of the movement developed theories and practices of lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability that continue to resonate today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An oft-forgotten chapter in the women's lib movement of the 1970s was the rise of independent, women-owned bookstores, many of which created safe spaces for conversations that spurred second-wave feminism. Hogan has written a history of those thought-leading small businesses and the lesbians and women of color behind them, in which she celebrates the power of the feminist printed word.\" * Ms. *\u003cbr\u003e\"It’s difficult to write the history of women’s bookstores without romanticizing a complex world of books, ideas, feelings, and feminist community that many of us miss. Hogan describes the pleasures of these communities, as well as the anger and factionalism that their commitments provoked. A literary history that opens and closes with Hogan’s own experience working at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore, \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Bookstore Movement\u003c\/i\u003e leads us through the rise and fall of this network, which, at its peak, included 130 businesses in North America.\" -- Claire Bond Potter * Chronicle Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hogan gives us a more complicated narrative; she focuses on a broad base of women from different backgrounds working together as activists, rather than on a few commercially successful writers. It is a history from the bottom-up rather than a female-adjusted Great Man style of history. . . .Hogan’s story should make us think about how we can build the communities that will give us the next books that will change our lives.\" -- Laura Tanenbaum * The New Republic *\u003cbr\u003e\"[A]n eminently readable text that traces the history of feminist bookstores from their rise in the 1970s through the 1990s. . . . This work will appeal to scholars and everyday readers who enjoy microhistories. Highly recommended. All levels\/libraries.\" -- M. Martinez * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\"In some ways, \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Bookstore Movement\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic Second Wave recovery project, casting a loving glance backward as it seeks to uncover a series of lost moments obscured by the financial fate (and fight) of feminist bookstores in the ’90s. But Hogan’s account also spills beyond generational borders.\" -- Stephanie Young * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Bookstore Movement\u003c\/i\u003e offers more than a chronicle of the rise and fall of feminist bookstores from 1970 to 2003. Drawing from archival documents, interviews, and scholarship, Hogan delineates the infrastructure that housed a lesbian, antiracist, anticapitalist, community-oriented culture, and she textures her account with thick descriptions of lived experience.\" -- Ellen Messer-Davidow * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Hogan's richly researched text is resplendent with photos that commemorate the 1970s-1980s era of feminism....Indeed, the engaging narrative prompted winsome memories of my brief, mid-1980s stint as an employee at Womanbooks in New York City while in journalism school. The passage of three decades has not dimmed my affection for the colourful posters, shelves of dazzling books and smiling co-workers that greeted me when I began my shift. I'm honoured to have been a part of the tradition that Kristen Hogan recounts, to sublime effect, in her outstanding contribution to lesbian and feminist letters.\" -- Evelyn C. White * Herizons *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Carefully researched and highly engaging. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Bookstore Movement \u003c\/i\u003eis essential reading for anyone interested in the history of feminist writing and publishing, as well as anyone seeking to understand how feminist alternative economies and communities took shape and survived in the late twentieth century.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kate Eichhorn * Journal of American History *\u003cbr\u003e“A radical contribution to contemporary feminist dialogue. . . . This book will be of potential relevance to feminist, queer and antiracist readers both within and beyond the North American context.” -- Chiara Xausa * Women's Studies International Forum *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface. Reading the Map of Our Bodies  xiii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Dykes with a Vision 1970–1976  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Revolutionaries in a Capitalist System 1976–1980  33\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Accountable to Each Other  1980–1983  69\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Feminist Shelf, A Transnational Project  1984–1993  107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Economics and Antiracist Alliances  1993–2003  145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Feminist Remembering  179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  195\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  241\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  261","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406094967127,"sku":"9780822361107","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822361107.jpg?v=1730494507","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-feminist-bookstore-movement-9780822361107","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}