Feminist Revolution in Literacy - Women''s Bookstores in the United States

Informationen zum Autor Junko Onosaka teaches at Parkland College, and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It 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. They improved women's literacy - their abilities to read, write, publish, and distribute women's voices and visions - and helped women to instigate a feminist revolution in literacy. Zusammenfassung Examines the history of bookstores operated by and for women in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s, the number of which reached over 100 by the early 1990s. This book views 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction  2. The time we had no women's bookstores  3. The birth of women's bookstores  4. Women's bookstores in the 1970s: Lesbian Feminists  5. Women's bookstores in the 1980s  6. Women's bookstores in the 1980s  7. More than a bookstore  8. Women's bookstores in the 90's  9. Conclusion

List of contents

1. Introduction  2. The time we had no women's bookstores  3. The birth of women's bookstores  4. Women's bookstores in the 1970s: Lesbian Feminists  5. Women's bookstores in the 1980s  6. Women's bookstores in the 1980s  7. More than a bookstore  8. Women's bookstores in the 90's  9. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Junko Onosaka, Junko (University of Illinois Urbana-Cham Onosaka, Onosaka Junko
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.04.2006
• EAN: 9780415975964
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97596-4
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Literacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Feminism & feminist theory, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, History of the Americas, Feminism and feminist theory