The Virago Story : : Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon / / Catherine Riley.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Riley, Catherine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Protest, Culture & Society ; 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)

The 1970s witnessed a renaissance in women’s print culture, as feminist presses and bookshops sprang up in the wake of the second-wave women’s movement. At four decades’ remove from that heady era, however, the landscape looks dramatically different, with only one press from the period still active in contemporary publishing: Virago. This engaging history explains how, from modest beginnings, Virago managed to weather epochal transformations in gender politics, literary culture, and the book publishing business. Drawing on original interviews with many of the press's principal figures, it gives a compelling account of Virago’s place in recent women's history while also reflecting on the fraught relationship between activism and commerce.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I 1973–83 -- Chapter 1 Virago’s Hands-on Brand of Feminism -- Chapter 2 Changing the Literary Landscape -- Part II 1983–94 -- Chapter 3 ‘Alternative, Autonomous, and Viable’ Feminist Publishing and the Mainstream -- Chapter 4 Fragmenting Feminism and Diversifying Women’s Writing -- Part III 1994–2004 -- Chapter 5 Working Women and the Changing Face(s) of the Book Industry -- Chapter 6 Third Waves and Disconnections -- Part IV 2004–17 -- Chapter 7 Virago’s Place in the New Millennium’s Literary Marketplace -- Chapter 8 Twenty-First-Century Feminism(s) and Virago’s Role for Women’s Writing -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index