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This is the first analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five hundred different feminist newsletters and newspapers were published in the United States. Agatha Beins shows that the repetition of certain ideas in these periodicals―ideas about gender, race, solidarity, and politics―solidified their centrality to feminism. Beins focuses on five periodicals of that era, comprising almost three hundred different issues: __Distaff__ (New Orleans, Louisiana); __Valley Women’s Center Newsletter__ (Northampton, Massachusetts); __Female Liberation Newsletter__ (Cambridge, Massachusetts); __Ain’t I a Woman?__ (Iowa City, Iowa); and __L.A. Women’s Liberation Newsletter__, later published as __Sister__ (Los Angeles, California). Together they represent a wide geographic range, including some understudied sites of feminism. Beins examines the discourse of sisterhood, images of women of color, feminist publishing practices, and the production of feminist spaces to demonstrate how repetition shaped dominant themes of feminism’s collective identity. Beins also illustrates h

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Author

Beins, Agatha; Potter, Claire; Romano, Renee

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820349510

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Science