Earlier in the summer D-M caught up with Catherine Riley whose new book The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon was published this year by Berghahn Books.
Yearly Archives: 2018
Feminist Book Fortnight 1984 and 2018: An interview with Jane Anger
Jane Anger is a feminist who has worked in the booktrade for 40 years. She helped found the legendary Silver Moon Bookshop and was an early member of Women in Publishing, a feminist network for women in the book business.…
‘Academic dyke, 25, feminist, non-scene, seeks similar’: Personal Ads in Spare Rib
Spare Rib – the iconic magazine of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s and 1980s, offered a small pleasure to readers looking for ‘love among the small ads’, despite its complex relationship to both advertising and romantic relationships.…
Tagged with: advertising revenue, classified ads, lesbians, love, periodicals, relationships, sex
Posted in Spare Rib
Posted in Spare Rib
Researching Feminist Business
The first women’s liberation movement (WLM) activist I interviewed was the proprietor of a small business. In 2009 I met Caroline Hutton who ran Women’s Revolutions Per Minute (WRPM) as a sole trader from the late 1970s-1990s.
Tagged with: 5th demand, Beveridge Report, East Leeds Women's Workshop, Enterprise Allowance, Fakenham Enterprises, London Women's Film Group, Onlywomen Press, Outwrite, Research, See Red, Sheba Feminist Press, Sisterhood & After, Spare Rib, Virago, Women's Revolutions Per Minute
Posted in Feminist Business
Posted in Feminist Business
