Wellesley College’s Women's Review of Books will stop being published after the end of the year. Sad!
The Women’s Review was a journal on fiction and nonfiction writings by and about women, and had been around for 21 years
Susan Bailey, the executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women said of the publication: "It's very sad…because it is one of the last publications of its kind, focusing on women's writing and women's voices, reviewing books by large publishers as well as smaller presses, and providing opportunities for intellectual experiences and exchanges in a setting where women's voices were at the center."
Author and sometimes-reviewer for the journal, E.J. Graff added that "it was one of the last truly lively feminist publications I can think of…I think of it as part of the loss of room for feminist discussion. A lot of us are upset about the shrinking of media space, print and broadcast, for ideas that put women's lives at the center instead of as a footnote."
How annoying that women’s academic pubs aren’t supported enough to sustain themselves…ugh.
Which means that we need to support the indy feminist media outlets that we love even more. Since a lot of us will be giving gifts this weekend for Christmas, let's remember to give the gift of Bitch, Bust, Ms., etc. Oh, and you can also donate to most of them directly. I got a sparkly sticker from Bitch earlier this year for donating. Ain't I kewl?
This was the feminist equivalent of the New York Review of Books, a venue for long-format articles for the academic and non-academic left-leaning opinion and policy leaders ("public intellectuals"). Unfortunately there is no other consistent feminist outlet for such writing, although occasionally the Boston Review publishes some interesting pieces by feminist writers. NYRB, though left, is definitely not feminist in outlook, and every article on family economics, demography, and other items of feminist interest seems to be written by a man. Women do make an occasional appearance, primarily as political commentators (Joan Didion is a regular), but do not express explicitly feminist views. Ms. book reviews are just plain superficial. Bitch is pretty interesting but is entirely pop-culture-oriented, leaving economics, history, politics untouched. And I haven't seen a copy of Signs for a good long while, but it was too densely packed with English-lit. academic jargon for my liking. Too damn much Foucault and Butler and Irigay (sic), too little solid economics and history and social sciences.
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