2016/03/10 by Kristen Hogan · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #American Literature and Culture #American and British Literature Analysis #Canadian Identity and History #Themes in Literature Analysis
paper · doi:10.1215/9780822374336
openalex publication_date 2016/03/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
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