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List Of Feminist Bookstores ...
This is a list of feminist bookstores. Canada * Common Woman Books * Toronto Women's Bookstore United States * Amazon Bookstore Cooperative * Bloodroot * Bluestockings * Charis Books & More * In Other Words Feminist Community Center * Old Wives Tales * A Room of One's Own * Womanbooks * A Woman's Place * Women & Children First United Kingdom * The Second Shelf in London * Silver Moon Bookshop See also * List of bookstore chains * List of independent bookstores References {{Companies by industry Feminist * Bookstores Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of librari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feminist Bookstore
Feminist bookstores sell material relating to women's issues, gender, and sexuality. These stores served as some of the earliest open spaces for feminist community building and organizing. Prior to the spread of feminist bookstores, bookselling was a trade dominated by white men in the United States. There was a lack of awareness and interest within this bookstore leadership to meet the demands for woman-centered literature being raised by feminists at the time. Though some bookstores featured small sections of women's literature or feminist books, these were limited and did not provide the range and depth representative of this category, treating topics not centered around men as an extra section of bookshops rather than an integral part. History Feminist bookstores emerged within this context as spaces not only for buying books, but building communities for women, lesbians, and feminists more broadly as part of the growing feminist movement of the mid-20th century. These ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Womanbooks
Womanbooks was a feminist bookstore in Manhattan, New York City. It was founded by Eleanor Batchelder, Karyn London, and Fabi Romero-Oak in 1975 and provided a safe space for women to learn and gather until it closed in 1987. Womanbooks was the second feminist bookstore in New York City, and the first to be inclusive of all women.Warren, Virginia Lee. “A Bookshop for Feminists.” New York Times, July 15 1975, https://www.nytimes.com/1975/07/15/archives/a-bookshop-for-feminists.html. History Inspired by the 1973 ''New Woman’s Survival Catalog'' and the belief that there should be a feminist bookstore in every neighborhood, Eleanor Batchelder, Karyn London, and Fabi Romero-Oak opened Womanbooks on March 1, 1975.Miller, Karen. “Celebrating Feminism at Womanbooks.” Womanews, volume 6, issue 3, March 1985, p. 6. They recognized the influence and contributions of other feminist bookstores in women's studies and decided that Womanbooks would not only emphasize accessibility ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Bookstores
Bookselling is the commercial trading of books which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process. People who engage in bookselling are called booksellers, bookdealers, bookpeople, bookmen, or bookwomen. The founding of libraries in c.300 BC stimulated the energies of the Athenian booksellers. History In Rome, toward the end of the republic, it became the fashion to have a library, and Roman booksellers carried on a flourishing trade. The spread of Christianity naturally created a great demand for copies of the Gospels, other sacred books, and later on for missals and other devotional volumes for both church and private use. The modern system of bookselling dates from soon after the introduction of printing. In the course of the 16th and 17th centuries the Low Countries for a time became the chief centre of the bookselling world. Modern book selling has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet. Major websites such as Amazon, eBay, and other big b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Independent Bookstores
Independent bookstores are small bookselling businesses, usually with one or a small number of locations in a limited geographic area. They contrast with corporate or chain bookstores, operated by a larger company, often with many stores across a large area. Australia *Foreign Language Bookshop, Melbourne Canada *Aqua Books in Winnipeg, Manitoba (defunct) *Attic Books in London, Ontario *Bakka-Phoenix in Toronto, Ontario * Bison Books in Winnipeg, Manitoba * Book City in Toronto, Ontario *The Book Room in Halifax, Nova Scotia was, at the time of its 2008 closing, the oldest bookstore in Canada (defunct) *Camas Bookstore and Infoshop in Victoria, British Columbia *Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto, Ontario *Highway Book Shop near Cobalt, Ontario (defunct) *Hyman's Book and Art Shoppe, independent Jewish bookstore in Toronto, Ontario (defunct) *Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium in Vancouver, British Columbia *McNally Robinson, small independently run chain of stores across Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Bookstore Chains
This is a list of bookstore chains with brick-and-mortar locations. In the United Kingdom and many parts of the English speaking world, they are known as "Bookshops" and "newsagents". In American English, they are called "bookstores", or sometimes "newsstands", as they also usually carry newspapers and magazines. This list includes both current and defunct businesses, and also includes large independent bookstores that have multiple locations, but that use a different business model than most business chains. Australia Current * Angus & Robertson *W H Smith *Collins Booksellers *Dymocks Booksellers *Golds World Of Judaica *Kinokuniya *Koorong * Queensland Book Depot Defunct * Borders * The Co-op Bookshop Brazil *Fnac *Livraria Cultura Canada *Archambault * Book City *Chapters, Coles, and Indigo belong to the same corporation. * Kobo eBookstore *McNally Robinson *Renaud-Bray China *Commercial Press *Joint Publishing * Page One *Popular Estonia * Rahva Raamat Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silver Moon Bookshop
The Silver Moon Bookshop was a feminist bookstore on Charing Cross Road in London founded in 1984 by Jane Cholmeley and Sue Butterworth,Redclift and Sinclair (1991) p. vii, its name derived from the two symbols of womanhood from a poem by Sappho. In 1989 Silver Moon Bookshop won the Pandora Award for "contributing most to promoting the status of women in publishing and related trades". In 1990 Cholmeley and Butterworth established an associated publishing business, Silver Moon Books. After 17 years, rising rents from the Soho Housing Association forced the shop to close on November 18, 2001. It was then incorporated into Foyles bookshop, till 2004, when the Silver Moon department closed. See also *Independent bookstore *Gay's the Word (bookshop) Gay's the Word is an independent bookshop in central London, and the oldest LGBT bookshop in the United Kingdom. Inspired by the emergence and growth of lesbian and gay bookstores in the United States, a small group of people from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Shelf
The Second Shelf is an independent bookshop in Soho, London with a focus on rare or rediscovered women's literature. It was founded in 2018 as a feminist bookshop. It also operates as an online bookshop. The name "The Second Shelf" comes from the title of Meg Wolitzer's 2012 essay in ''The New York Times Book Review'' about sexism towards women's fiction. It is a reference to ''The Second Sex'', a book by Simone de Beauvoir. Description The bookshop specialises in rare, rediscovered, and antiquarian books or manuscripts written by women. They also sell objects and ephemera related to women's literature, as well as the contemporary women's literature they view as undervalued. Many books in the shop are first editions, or signed books. Some few books sold are written by men, about women. Examples of authors featured by the shop include Jane Austen, Gwendolyn Brooks, the Bröntes, Elizabeth David, Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Zadie Smith. The Second Shelf is aligned wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women & Children First (bookstore)
Women & Children First is an independent bookstore located at 5233 North Clark Street in the Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago. The store was founded in 1979 by Ann Christophersen and Linda Bubon as a feminist bookstore and place to celebrate and support women authors and members of the Chicago community. Women & Children First specializes in books by and about women, children's books, and LGBT literature. Description Women & Children First is one of the largest feminist bookstores in the United States, with about 30,000 books in stock. Books are "curated with an inclusive and queer-minded lens" and the store is "known for its diversity and queer-friendliness." One of the goals of the bookstore is to "support the work of women in books and in community". Women & Children First carries not only important feminist literary works, but also focuses on works related to other political and progressive movements, with a particularly strong selection of books by and about the LGB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman's Place (bookstore)
A Woman's Place (fully ICI, Information Center Incorporate: A Woman's Place) was a feminist bookstore in Oakland, California. Opened in 1970, it was one of the first two feminist bookstores in the United States. History A Woman's Place was founded in 1970 An opening date of January 18, 1972, is given here. by a collective of eight women who had previously been selling feminist publications on the street. An outgrowth of the Bay Area Gay Women's Liberation, it was one of the first two feminist bookstores in the United States. Intended as a community space for women, A Woman's Place stocked nonfiction books by men, but only sold fiction and poetry if it was written by a woman. Members of the collective also focused on providing books from the perspective of the Third World and the working class. The Women's Press Collective moved there shortly after the store opened. The founders of Old Wives Tales, a feminist bookstore in San Francisco, were former members of the collective at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Room Of One's Own (bookstore)
A Room of One's Own is an independent bookstore located at 2717 Atwood Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. The store was founded in 1975 as a feminist bookstore and was named after Virginia Woolf's 1929 essay of the same name. A Room of One's Own carries a broad selection of books, with a focus on works by women and non-binary people and the LGBT community. Description A Room of One's Own specializes in areas such as feminism and gender studies, providing literature for, by and about women, non-binary people, and queer people. With a move to a larger space in 2011, the bookstore broadened its offerings, providing more selection in fiction, children's books, and local history. The store carries around 200,000 titles, with annual sales over one million dollars. Featuring a robust schedule of author talks and book readings, the store also offers free space for community meetings and events. A Room of One's Own partners with organizations such as the Wisconsin Book Festival. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Woman Books
Common Woman Books was a feminist bookstore based in Edmonton, Alberta from 1978-1992. It provided mail order sources for feminists in Edmonton. The store stocked feminist, gay, and lesbian literature, newspapers, music, and books for young adults. They hosted events such as book-readings, book nights, and reading series. They organized concerts and took their books to small towns and other feminist events. The bookstore was a hub of activity centered on the desire for social change, and they had a bulletin board full of information, readings and signings, concerts, guest speakers, film festivals, etc. History Common Woman Books was founded in 1978 by Julie Anne LeGras, Mair Smith, and Halyna Chomiak Freeland in response to a perceived need to make feminist literature available to Alberta women. The bookstore was owned and operated by a non-profit collective of about 15 women and run by volunteers. Founder Halyna Freeland was a lawyer, activist, teacher, community organizer, coo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Wives Tales (bookstore)
Old Wives Tales (also Old Wives' Tales) was a feminist bookstore in the Mission Dolores neighborhood of San Francisco. It was founded on October 31, 1976 by Carol Seajay and Paula Wallace, a lesbian couple. It closed permanently in October 1995. History On October 31, 1976, Old Wives Tales opened at 532 Valencia Street, funded by a loan from the San Francisco Feminist Federal Credit Union. It initially operated as a partnership between the founders. In 1978, Carol Seajay and Paula Wallace broke up, with Wallace moving away. The bookstore was moved to a new location at 1009 Valencia Street after the breakup, and Seajay restructured it to run as a worker cooperative. In 1983, members of the worker collective incorporated Old Wives Tales as a nonprofit. Seajay resigned the same year. In early 1991, the bookstore halved its floor space as a result of financial difficulties. In August 1993, Old Wives Tales reported additional financial trouble, with the collective seeking $25,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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