“Sinister Wisdom’s Feminist Bookstore News Project: Understanding the Scope and Impact of the Women in Print Movement through Bibliography” is a digital humanities project to build and examine a large dataset from Feminist Bookstore News (FBN), a US-based publication of the women in print movement. A hand-printed, stapled-in-the-corner newsletter, FBN grew to be the preeminent book trade magazine for feminist bookstores including feminist and lesbian publishers, vendors selling to feminist bookstores, and interested feminist readers. In addition, a range of mainstream and specialty bookstores as well as corporate, independent press, and other social movement publishers read FBN avidly. Carol Seajay operated FBN from 1976 until 2000, publishing over 130 issues; these issues ranged from eight pages to nearly 200 pages per issue Sinister Wisdom’s Feminist Bookstore News Project will generate two bibliographies from FBN.

The report from Phase One of the project is here.

The "Descriptive Database of Articles in Feminist Bookstore News 1976-2000" is available to download at the bottom of this page as is the issue list.

Click here to get involved with Phase Two.

All of the issues of Feminist Bookstore News are available here.

This dashboard lets users search for articles by author, title, and subject. The dashboard also is embedded below.
*Note: Best performance for the searchable database is through Mozilla's Firefox.

Questions? Email Julie!