feminist theory & praxis
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Tessa Jordan. Feminist Acts: Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism.
“‘If you wish to write about your children, may we suggest Ladies’ Home Journal? We are a literary magazine’” (156). The above statement, received by American Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon…
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Scrapbooks as Literary Documents
The scrapbook has a well-established place within the history of the book that spans from early modern commonplace books to the digital layouts of today. These often overlooked textual objects…
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Agatha Beins, Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity
Agatha Beins. Liberation in Print: Feminist Periodicals and Social Movement Identity. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2017. 240p., ill. ISBN 9780820349510. US$ 84.95 (hardcover). ISBN 9780820349534. US$ 32.95 (paperback). In…
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John Markert. Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present; William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy Selinger, eds. Romance Fiction and American Culture: Love as the Practice of Freedom
John Markert. Publishing Romance: The History of an Industry, 1940s to the Present. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2016. 334p. ISBN 9780786494903. US$ 40.00. William A. Gleason and Eric Murphy…
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Kristen Hogan. The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability
Kristen Hogan. The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016, 382p., ill. ISBN 9780822361299. US $24.95 Kristen Hogan’s The Feminist Bookstore Movement argues that feminist bookstores were…
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Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940
Rachel Potter. Obscene Modernism: Literary Censorship and Experiment 1900-1940. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 231p. ISBN 9780199680986. £55.00 (hardback). Why was Ulysses deemed obscene? Why was The Rainbow banned? What…