The Virago Story: Assessing the Impact of a Feminist Publishing Phenomenon

by Catherine Riley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785338552
• ISBN13: 9781785338557
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"