We're having a bake sale to raise money for BookWoman today on campus at Southwestern University in Georgetown!

Aww, I hope they raise enough money to get over this debt and are able to make a sustainable business model. We've had the same problem here with the Women and Children First bookstore. It is thankfully still open at this time.

I'm concerned it isn't just Feminist Bookstores that are disappearing.

I am writing a movement memoir and I am discovering that many of the books I considered very important and that should be part of Feminist/Women's studies programs are out of print.

By the way, when did Women's Studies turn into Gender Studies?

re: Courtney
My boyfriend goes to SU (I'm an alumni) and I let him know about it. He's been concerned about BookWoman closing, so hopefully he'll spread the word. Wish I could be there!

Yeah, I heard about this the other day through a friend's MySpace.

I'm glad to see that a blurb about Saving Book Women is up on here, it's comforting to know that New York cares about the feminist parts of Texas.

Sisters helping sisters out!

oh no, i love book woman!
even though i don't live in austin anymore, i will definitely donate something.

Two fellow Southwestern Pirates in a thread? What the hell's going on? I'll put a donation link on my defunct site. If they go, then The Tavern and House Park BBQ can't be far behind.

Norbizness (Class of '93)

To help support BookWoman you can also join their facebook and myspace groups! This is a great way to get the word out to friends who don't read this blog!

I've posted on this over at Faithfully Liberal to help as well!

To help support BookWoman you can also join their facebook and myspace groups! This is a great way to get the word out to friends who don't read this blog!

I've posted on this over at Faithfully Liberal to help as well!

To help support BookWoman you can also join their facebook and myspace groups! This is a great way to get the word out to friends who don't read this blog!

I've posted on this over at Faithfully Liberal to help as well!

Oops...sorry!

i live in austin, and it makes me really happy to see bookwoman mentioned on my favorite blog! it does not make me happy, though, to think about the possibility of them closing. ;____;

it would be a devastating loss. that place is amazing.

I don't know about our state capital, Columbia, but we have no feminist bookstores in my area. :( I find it really sad that they are going to shut down because some neocon don't like what they are selling.

I said it before and I'll say it again. You're linking to Amazon.com to sell your book. If we're concerned about feminist bookstores closing, donating money in panicked, last minute sprees isn't the solution. These are businesses - buy from them or promote buying from them. It's really that simple. Stores with business stay open.

Link to online stores of the feminist bookstores. Get rid of the Amazon.com link.

I just read a Boston Globe article which reminded me of this. Even though it focuses on gay bars instead of feminist bookstores, it has a part somewhat applying to both and more:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2007/12/02/last_call/?page=3

"...Gay bars are just one kind of business struggling to survive in what is, to use the phrase popularized by Chris Anderson in his book of the same name, the age of 'the long tail.' That phrase refers to an economy in which the Internet can make even low-demand products profitable. Until the Internet, large cities offered the closest thing to a long tail economy. Thanks to Cambridge's concentration of intellectual shoppers, for instance, Harvard Square had stores full of the most obscure books, magazines, and records you could think of buying. The students in Kenmore Square kept cheap eateries, music clubs, and record stores alive...

"...Now the classic example of a long tail business is online retailer Amazon.com, which stocks close to a million book titles - including more gay novels and intellectual books than any local store could offer. As long tail businesses migrate to the Internet, cities like Boston are being skinned alive..."