ABSTRACT

This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. It establishes that women's bookstores played an important role in feminism by enabling the dissemination of women's voices and thereby helping to sustain and enrich the women's movement. They improved women's literacy - their abilities to read, write, publish, and distribute women's voices and visions - and helped women to instigate a feminist revolution in literacy.

chapter Chapter One|7 pages

Introduction

chapter Chapter Two|15 pages

The Days When We Had No Women's Bookstores

chapter Chapter Three|20 pages

The Birth of Women's Bookstores

chapter Chapter Seven|19 pages

More Than a Bookstore: Books and Visions

chapter Chapter Eight|19 pages

Women's Bookstores in the 1990s

chapter Chapter Nine|7 pages

Conclusion