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Kristen Hogan - The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability - 9780822361107 - V9780822361107
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The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability

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Description for The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability Hardback. Kristen 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. Num Pages: 328 pages, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; HBTB; JFSJ1; JFSK2; JFSL4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 237 x 24. Weight in Grams: 610.
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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
610g
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822361107
SKU
V9780822361107
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Kristen Hogan
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.

Reviews for The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
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
Carefully researched and highly engaging. . . . The Feminist Bookstore Movement is essential reading for anyone interested ... Read more

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