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PeriodicalsFeminist publications - open-access JSTOR collection
Posted September 26, 2023 by [Deleted] in FeministBooks

I'm not sure if it's okay to post it here, maybe /o/WomensHistory is a better fit... but I hope it is. If not, please let me know and I'd post it there or in any other appropriate circle.

JSTOR have an open-access collection called Independent Voices, which is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. Within this collection, there is a subject collection of called Feminist.

This is the description of the collection by JSTOR:

Over 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped propel the second wave of feminism from the late sixties and early seventies through the end of the 20th century. Groups represented by these publications include the Redstockings, New York Radical Women, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, the Third World Women’s Alliance, and many others. Abortion, rape, unequal pay, women in the service, child care, women’s self-help, pornography, gender roles, and many other major issues of the period were extensively covered in the pages of the feminist press.

These are all the titles (some only include a few items, other includes tens and some over hundred items):

13th Moon

Aegis

Ain't I a Woman?

The Amazon

Amazon Quarterly

And Ain't I a Woman!

Aphra

Battle Acts

Big Mama Rag

Black Belt Woman

Black Maria

Branching Out

Bread & Roses

The Broomstick

CWLU NEWS

Chrysalis

Country Women

Dandelion

Distaff

Echo of Sappho

Everywoman

FAAR News

Feelings from women's liberation

Feminist Alliance Against Rape Newsletter

Feminist Art Journal

Feminist Bookstore News

Feminist Voice

Hard Labor

Her-self

Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Arts & Politics

It Aint Me Babe

The Lesbian Tide (1974)

The Lesbian Tide

Lilith

Marin Women's News Journal

Marin Women's News Letter

Media Report to Women

Meeting Ground

National Communication Network for the elimination of violence against women

New Directions for Women

New Directions for Women in New Jersey

New Women's Times

New York Radical Feminists Newsletter

No More Fun and Games

Notes

Off Our Backs

Ozark Feminist Review

The Ozark Feminist

Pandora

Quest: A Feminist Quarterly

SPAZM

SPECTRE

The Second Wave

Secret Storm

Sojourner

The Spokeswoman

Tell-a-woman

The Tide

Tooth and Nail

Tradeswomen Magazine

Triple Jeopardy

Up From Under

Up and Coming

Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement

WOMANSPIRIT

WREE View of Women for Racial and Economic Equality

WREE-view: Bulletin of Women for Racial and Economic Equality, The

WomaNews

Woman's World

Women Against Pornography

Women Artists News

Women Artists Newsletter

Women and Art Quarterly

The Women's News Journal

Women's Press

Women: A Journal of Liberation

I think this is a real treasures, and it's just really cool and interesting to browse through these publications and see what feminists thought back then, what they were dealing with, what have changed, what didn't...

There is also a collection of LGBT, which might also be of interest. I think all of the publications of and about lesbians are already in the Feminist collection, though, but maybe you'd find it interesting all the same. I don't know if trans has any representation here, it seems to be mostly or entirely for and about gay people.

This is the description of the collection by JSTOR:

The LGBT collection contains 25 publications that chronicle the birth of the Gay and Lesbian movements in the United States. The gay liberation movement of the 1970s saw political action explode through the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Human Rights Campaign, the election of openly gay and lesbian representatives, and the first march on Washington for gay rights in 1979. Frustrated with the male leadership of most gay liberation groups and influenced by the feminist movement of the 1970s, lesbians formed their own collectives, music festivals, newspapers, bookstores, and publishing houses and called for lesbian rights in mainstream feminist groups like the National Organization for Women (NOW).

Anyway, I hope you find it interesting!

3 comments

[Deleted]September 26, 2023

Thank you 🙏

I'm aiming to work on a project where I download these types of things to USB drives, because sites like Sci-hub and internet archives are under fire from lawsuits. I can see a future in which certain information is no longer made freely available or just removed entirely. Especially LGB and even T research and history, which is being rewritten or hidden to fit a certain narrative.

disco_metalSeptember 26, 2023(Edited September 26, 2023)

I’ve read some of Off Our Backs. It’s great!

And “Notes” (Notes from the First Year, Notes from the Second Year, and Notes from the Third Year) is essential!

Jane_MerrydaughterSeptember 26, 2023(Edited September 26, 2023)

Great collections

It’s fun to browse old feminist and lesbian periodicals

Women’s Bookstore Quarterly!

Also of interest:

The archival turn in feminism : outrage in order : Eichhorn, Kate, 1971- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/archivalturninfe0000eich

Some of the zines and other 3WF ephemera listed in the finding aid of the NYU Riot Grrrl Collection are available via the Internet Archive