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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Preface. Reading the Map of Our Bodies xiii 1. Dykes with a Vision 1970–1976 1 2. Revolutionaries in a Capitalist System 1976–1980 33 3. Accountable to Each Other 1980–1983 69 4. The Feminist Shelf, A Transnational Project 1984–1993 107 5. Economics and Antiracist Alliances 1993–2003 145 Epilogue. Feminist Remembering 179 Notes 195 Bibliography 241 Index 261
