Dismantling the Master's House ...: The Predicament of Feminist Publishing and Writing Today

Australian Feminist Studies

Volumn 16, Issue 35, 2001, Pages 175-184

  Menon, Ritu ^a  

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EID: 0345822165     PISSN: 08164649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08164640120076014     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Stephanie Poggi, an interview with Carol Seajay, Sojourner: The Women's Forum, December 1998, p. 29.
2. Urvashi Butalia and Ritu Menon, Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South (Bellagio Publishing Network) Boston, 1995, p. 70.
3. Seajay, interview with Poggi, Sojourner.
4. Mary E. John, 'Beyond the Ghetto? Studying Women and Gender in the Nineties', unpublished paper, 1999.
5. See Ritu Menon, 'Out of the Ivory Tower', Women's Review of Books, (Wellesley College for Research on Women) Wellesley, MA., vol. VIII, no. 5, February 1991, pp. 31-2.
6. Quoted in Menon, 'Out of the Ivory Tower'.
7. Quoted in Menon, 'Out of the Ivory Tower'.
8. John, 'Beyond the Ghetto?'
9. Florence Howe, 'The Feminist Press: an Instrument of Change', unpublished paper, 1995.
10. Personal communication with the author.
11. Personal communication with the author.
12. Tejeshwar Singh, in a conversation with the author.
13. Linda Gardiner, Editor, Women's Review of Books, personal communication with the author, December 1998.
14. Theresa Corrigan, 'Preserving Feminist Bookstores', Sacramento News and Review, 28 March 1996, p. 5. The same year, 1996, two of the oldest feminist bookstores in San Francisco and New York, Old Wives Tales and Judith's Room, were forced to close down. For an insightful discussion on the role of the feminist reviewer see 'The Feminist Reviewer' in Valerie Miner, Rumours From the Cauldron (University of Michigan Press) Ann Arbor, 1992, pp. 48-55.
15. Theresa Corrigan, 'Preserving Feminist Bookstores', Sacramento News and Review, 28 March 1996, p. 5. The same year, 1996, two of the oldest feminist bookstores in San Francisco and New York, Old Wives Tales and Judith's Room, were forced to close down. For an insightful discussion on the role of the feminist reviewer see 'The Feminist Reviewer' in Valerie Miner, Rumours From the Cauldron (University of Michigan Press) Ann Arbor, 1992, pp. 48-55.
16. Seajay, interview with Poggi, Sojourner, p. 31; Judith Rosen, 'Women's Bookstores: Surviving in a Chain-ging Retail Climate', Publishers Weekly, 28 April 1997.
17. Seajay, interview with Poggi, Sojourner, p. 31; Judith Rosen, 'Women's Bookstores: Surviving in a Chain-ging Retail Climate', Publishers Weekly, 28 April 1997.
18. Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein, 'The Commercial is Political', unpublished paper, 1995. When Spinifex started in 1991 it found its major competitors in publishing feminist/women's studies books to be Random Century, Penguin, and Allen & Unwin, all big trade presses.
19. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 'English Studies via Women's Studies', Journal of English & Foreign Languages, nos 7&8, June and December 1991, p. 167. For a cogent commentary on 'mainstreaming' women in development planning, see Kamla Bhasin, Understanding Gender (Kali for Women) Delhi, 1999.
20. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, 'English Studies via Women's Studies', Journal of English & Foreign Languages, nos 7&8, June and December 1991, p. 167. For a cogent commentary on 'mainstreaming' women in development planning, see Kamla Bhasin, Understanding Gender (Kali for Women) Delhi, 1999.