My interest in preserving and making Women's Press/Womyn's Press available is rooted in my own membership in the WP collective between June of 1983 and July of 1991. It is one of the hundreds of small, grassroots feminist newspapers that sprouted in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s. I have a complete set, and while these newspapers are still in remarkably good shape, newsprint does deteriorate over time. Thus, this project.
I am also interested in preserving WP as part of my graduate school work in library studies and women's studies. This coming semester, I'm going to take a class called Contemporary Feminist Thought. Going through the textbooks, it seems that we will be studying primarily the work of academics. I think that it's also important to attend to the contributions to feminist theory made by ordinary women without academic credentials. For me, feminism is a profoundly egalitarian set of movements. WP contains artwork, stories, personal experiences, and yes, theory and analysis. It's worth preserving, and I hope you enjoy reading it.
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