The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability - Hardcover

Hogan, Kristen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0822361108 ISBN 13: 9780822361107

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2016

Synopsis

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. 

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Review:

"Using archival research, interviews, and personal experience, Kristen Hogan offers an insightful, loving history of feminist bookwomen’s vital contributions to social-justice work and literary traditions: their literary advocacy, activism, and transformation; complex lesbian antiracist feminisms; multicultural coalition-building; innovative relational reading practices; and impact on transnational feminisms and the book industry. Blending historical recovery with forward-looking calls to action, The Feminist Bookstore Movement should be required reading for any feminist who appreciates a good book."  Author: AnaLouise Keating, author of Source: Transformation Now!: Toward a Post-Oppositional Politics of Change

From the Author:

Kristen Hogan, who worked at BookWoman in Austin and at the Toronto Women's Bookstore, is Education Program Coordinator for the University of Texas Gender and Sexuality Center at the University of Texas, Austin.  

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0822361108
• ISBN 13: 9780822361107
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328