Status | Defunct |
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Founded | 1974 |
Founders | Lilian Mohin, Sheila Shulman, and Deborah Hart |
Defunct | 2010 |
Country of origin | England |
Headquarters location | London |
Distribution | International |
Publication types | Books, pamphlets |
Nonfiction topics | Lesbian feminism and feminist literary criticism |
Fiction genres | Feminist science fiction, lesbian literature, feminist poetry |
Official website | www |
Onlywomen Press (briefly known as The Women's Press[1][2]) was a feminist press based in London. It was the only feminist press to be founded by out lesbians, Lilian Mohin, Sheila Shulman, and Deborah Hart.[1] It commenced publishing in 1974 and was one of five notably active feminist publishers in the 1990s.[3][4][5]
Onlywomen was unique from other British feminist presses because it both printed and published material. This allowed them to control all parts of the "chain of cultural production"[6] and to "subsidize publishing activity"[6] by printing books.
Between 1986 and 1988 it published the journal Gossip: A Journal of Lesbian Feminist Ethics.[7][1]
Writers published in the press often read their work at Gay's the Word bookshop.[8]
A number of noted lesbian writers published by Onlywomen Press include Anna Livia, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Jay Taverner, Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, Sylvia Martin and Sheila Jeffreys.
Its last book, a children's book, was published in 2010.[3]