Feminist bookstore

Bluestockings, Lower East Side, New York, 2006
Antigone Books in Tucson, Arizona

Feminist bookstores sell material relating to women's issues, gender, and sexuality. These stores served as some of the earliest open spaces for feminist community building and organizing.[1]

Prior to the spread of feminist bookstores, bookselling was a trade dominated by white men in the United States. There was a lack of awareness and interest within this bookstore leadership to meet the demands for woman-centered literature being raised by feminists at the time.[1] Though some bookstores featured small sections of women's literature or feminist books, these were limited and did not provide the range and depth representative of this category, treating topics not centered around men as an extra section of bookshops rather than an integral part.[2]

  1. ^ a b Onosaka, Junko (2013-10-14). Feminist Revolution in Literacy: Women's Bookstores in the United States. Routledge. ISBN 9781135499150.
  2. ^ Travis, Trysh (2008-09-12). "The Women in Print Movement: History and Implications". Book History. 11 (1): 275–300. doi:10.1353/bh.0.0001. ISSN 1529-1499. S2CID 161531900.