Feminist Bookstore News

Trade publication for feminist bookstores

Feminist Bookstore NewsCategories| trade publication

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Frequency| bimonthly, quarterly
Founder| Carol Seajay
Founded| 1976
First issue| October 14, 1976
Final issue| Summer 2000
Based in| San Francisco, California, United States
ISSN| 0741-6555
OCLC| 10196440

Feminist Bookstore News (FBN) was a trade publication for feminist bookstores. It was active from 1976 until 2000,[1] and issues were published sometimes bimonthly and sometimes quarterly.[2] The publication was described by Tee Corinne as "the glue that kept women booksellers around the world together",[3] acting as a network for feminist booksellers and publishers across the United States and transnationally.[4][5][6]

## History

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Feminist Bookstore News was founded by Carol Seajay after the First National Women in Print Conference, intended to help the community that had attended stay in touch with each other.[7] The five largest feminist bookstores donated $100 each ($553 in 2024) to help start the publication.[8] The first issue was published on October 14, 1976.[7]

The publication began as a six-page mimeographed newsletter[9] called Feminist Bookstores Newsletter,[10] supported by funding from Womanbooks, Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, and New Words Bookstore.[11] The name was changed to Feminist Bookstore News in 1984. By 1988 the publication was 48 pages long and issues were professionally printed roughly every two months.[12]

As feminist bookstores became less common due to chain stores and online shopping, the subscriber count of FBN dropped, and publication eventually ceased in 2000.[11]

## Activity

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Book lists were common in FBN, with a focus on connecting readers with resources and supporting authors. Early list topics included “Native American Women,” “Black Women,” and “Young Women & Youth Liberation.”[13]

After Toni Morrison's book The Bluest Eye went out of print in the mid-1970s, FBN promoted a campaign to demonstrate demand to publishers by writing them orders for large quantities of the book. The Bluest Eye was reissued in 1978.[10] A similar effort took place with The Female Man by Joanna Russ, which went out of print in 1977 and was also re-released in 1978 after advocacy from feminist booksellers coordinated by FBN. This type of letter-writing campaign was often repeated in the publication.[14]

FBN popularized the practice of sending a portion of profit to feminist authors when selling copies of their remaindered books, because authors did not receive royalties from publishers for these copies.[15]

## References

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1. ^ "Feminist Bookstore News Records". Online Archive of California. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
2. ^ "Feminist Bookstore News — Browse by title — Independent Voices". voices.revealdigital.org. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
3. ^ Kuda, Marie J. (July 26, 2000). "Feminist Bookstore News closes - Windy City Times News". Windy City Times. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
4. ^ Travis 2008, p. 277.
5. ^ Hogan 2008, p. 597.
6. ^ Hogan 2016, p. xiv.
7. ^ a b Sullivan, Elizabeth. "Carol Seajay, Old Wives Tales and the Feminist Bookstore Network". FoundSF. Retrieved January 20, 2021.
8. ^ Tyrkus, Michael J.; Bronski, Michael, eds. (1977). Gay & Lesbian Biography. St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-237-1 – via Gale In Context: Biography.
9. ^ Harper, Jorjet (June 21, 1990). "Lambda Awards Ceremony: Vegas Rising". Bay Area Reporter. Vol. 20, no. 25\. p. 82. Retrieved January 26, 2021.
10. ^ a b Hogan 2008, p. 599.
11. ^ a b Travis 2008, p. 288.
12. ^ Travis 2008, pp. 287–288.
13. ^ Hogan 2016, pp. 38–39.
14. ^ Hogan 2016, pp. 50–52.
15. ^ Hogan 2016, pp. 53–54.

## Bibliography

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* Hogan, Kristen (March 1, 2008). "Women's Studies in Feminist Bookstores: "All the Women's Studies women would come in"". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 33 (3): 595–621\. doi:10.1086/523707. ISSN 0097-9740. S2CID 144949497.
* Hogan, Kristen (2016). The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability. Durham [North Carolina]. ISBN 978-0-8223-6110-7. OCLC 915120533.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
* Travis, Trysh (2008). "The Women in Print Movement: History and Implications". Book History. 11: 275–300\. ISSN 1098-7371. JSTOR 30227421.

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