We're building a feminist bookshelf!

Dear friends of FP,

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be showing you how your support helps Feminist Press fill shelves with feminist literature. And where better to begin than the books (and people) that started it all?

Fifty-two years ago, Florence Howe founded Feminist Press in response to a simple but critical question: Where are all the women writers? From the start, FP was grounded in feminist recovery work—republishing books that had gone out of print not because of their quality, but because they were written by women.

But these books didn’t appear to Florence out of thin air. They were brought to her by other people who cared deeply about feminist writing. Tillie Olsen told Florence about Rebecca Harding Davis’s Life in the Iron Mills, a collection of stories that shed a new light on the early industrial working class. Alice Walker edited I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive, a collection of Zora Neale Hurston’s writing, the first publication of the now-canonical Black American writer’s work after her death in 1960.

Today, feminist recovery work remains a central part of Feminist Press’s mission, from reprinting forgotten classics to launching the careers of new writers. And we rely on people like Tillie and Alice—feminist champions like you—to keep that work alive.

Will you help us keep building a feminist bookshelf with a donation of $25, $50, or $100? Every dollar you contribute brings us closer to filling our shelves with new Feminist Press classics!

In solidarity,

Margot Atwell and the Feminist Press team—Lucia, Lauren, Jisu, Nick, Drew, Rachel, and Nadine

Graphics by Sally Chen