FEMINIST bookstoreS

Purchased on eBay

My favourite category of bookmarks are those from bookstores, especially ones from women's or feminist bookstores. I recently purchased two bulk lots of bookmarks from an eBay seller and these were three of the vintage gems among them.  I so love having these feminist bookstore bookmarks in my collection!

Amazon Bookstore, Minneapolis

I did some online research and found out about the interesting herstory of  the 'Amazon Bookstore', including this great video, this Wikipedia article, and this newspaper article.

Two Amazon Bookstore bookmarks showing different logos. Both c. 1985

Sister Moon Feminist Bookstore & Art Gallery, Milwaukee

This bookstore and art gallery opened in 1976 and closed in 1983, due to financial issues.  

Sister Moon Feminist Bookstore & Art Gallery in 1977 had one store, at 1625 E. Irving, later advertising (approx. 1978) listed a second location at 2128 E. Locust in Milwaukee. At that time, their ad indicated that, "Besides 2,000 book titles, we carry: pottery, weavings, glassblowing, leather, stained glass, batiking, record albums, t-shirts, posters, prints, and photography".

This bookmark (front & back) is c. 1980.​

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FEMINIST BOOKSTORE MOVEMENT:  Here is an interesting VIDEO on the Feminist Bookstore Movement, an interview with the author of the book of the same name.