Silver Moon Bookshop

The Silver Moon Bookshop was a feminist bookstore on Charing Cross Road in London founded in 1984 by Jane Cholmeley, Sue Butterworth, and Jane Anger. [1][2][3] They established Silver Moon Bookshop to share intersectional feminist rhetoric with a larger community of readers and encourage open discussion of women’s issues.[4] The shop served both as a safe space for women to participate in literary events and a resource center to learn about local feminist initiatives.[5] The owners of Silver Moon Bookshop eventually expanded into the publishing field through establishing Silver Moon Books, [6] as well as creating the store newsletter Silver Moon Quarterly.[5]

In 1989, Silver Moon Bookshop won the Pandora Award for "contributing most to promoting the status of women in publishing and related trades".[1] After 17 years, the shop closed on November 18, 2001.[7][8]

  1. ^ a b Redclift and Sinclair (1991) p. vii,
  2. ^ "Obituary: Sue Butterworth". Daily Telegraph. 4 August 2004.
  3. ^ "Feminist Book Fortnight 1984 and 2018: An interview with Jane Anger | The Business of Women's Words". 15 June 2018. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  4. ^ Delap, Lucy (25 April 2016). "Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women's Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000". History Workshop Journal. 81 (1): 171–196. doi:10.1093/hwj/dbw002. ISSN 1363-3554 – via Oxford Academic.
  5. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference :2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Publisher: Silver Moon Books | Open Library". openlibrary.org. Retrieved 1 December 2023.
  7. ^ Sarikakis, Katharine (2007). Feminist Interventions in International Communication: Minding the Gap. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-7425-5305-7.
  8. ^ Paton, Maureen (23 October 2001). "Eclipse of Silver Moon bookshop". the Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2020.