‘The Message Is in the Book’: What Virago's Sale in 1995 Means for Feminist Publishing

Riley, Catherine

doi:10.1080/09574042.2014.978596

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“…54 Catherine Riley has argued that Virago intended to change constructions of gender through the content of its literature and by influencing and expanding the literary landscape. 55 The history of financial pressures, takeovers and industry dealings of the feminist presses is evidence of a range of approaches to the commercial interface of this feminist expression and activism. Important contributions were also made by booksellers to feminist print cultures and the dissemination of the feminist printed word.…”

Section: The Emergence Of Feminist Print Culturesmentioning

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Spreading the Word: feminist print cultures and the Women's Liberation Movement

Forster

2016

Women's History Review

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This article investigates the significance of print cultures to women of the second wave of feminism. It takes a broad view of a male-dominated publishing industry and highlights the various ways that women intervened and responded through their writing, publishing and organisational skills and political commitment. It discusses the shifts in female publishing cultures, emboldened by the overarching Women's Liberation Movement and empowered through the establishment of separatist networks. Feminist activism, I argue, may be discerned in the impetus behind the construction and publication of feminist magazines. The last section considers the different publishing hinterlands of three feminist magazines, overlapping in their concerns, but distinctive in their approaches: Shrew, Spare Rib and Womens Voice, and argues that such magazines of the second wave represent the diversity and print activism of the WLM.

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Section: The Emergence Of Feminist Print Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%