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. In 2018 she coordinated the revival of an iconic initiative of the 1980s, Feminist Book Fortnight. As she explains to BOWW lead, Margaretta Jolly:
‘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. It started out with a minimal classified section and no personals (SR’s early classified pages ran to about half a page), but by the 1980s the classified section was a double-page spread, with ‘relationships’ the longest and – of course – the most eye-catching category.
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Tagged with: advertising revenue, classified ads, lesbians, love, periodicals, relationships, sex
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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.
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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
