women's bookstores in the United States
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Onosaka, Junko R.
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- VS 53 2006
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenboekhandels, vrouwenbedrijven, feministische tijdschriften, tweede feministische golf, lesbische bewegingen, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 1980-1989
- Description
- This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. 'Women's bookstores' refers to bookstores operated by and for women. Such bookstores emerged out of the second women's movement as well as the lesbian and gay rights movement. This book establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and enrich the women's movement. The crucial step toward the development of women's bookstores started with the first national Women In Print Conference in 1976. As an important part of the feminist publishing community, it gathered strength centered around the periodical Feminist Bookstore News.