Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000
Feminist Bookshops, Reading Cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement in Great Britain, c. 1974–2000
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英国的女权主义书店、阅读文化和妇女解放运动，c. 1974-2000
DOI：
10.1093/hwj/dbw002
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发表时间：
2016
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1
通讯作者：
L. Delap
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作者：
L. Delap
她第一次读安娜·科伊特（Anna Coedt）的《阴道高潮的神话》（The Myth of The Vaginal Orgasm）时就把这本书扔到房间的另一边，她的暴力反应证明了这些文本可能是多么具有挑战性，当它们在女性的生活中“引爆”时，会引发痛苦的情绪。印刷文化也可以通过它所传达的思想和它令人舒适的物质存在来产生团结。斯特拉·达齐是一位重要的英国黑人女权主义活动家，她回忆说，通过访问其他激进主义家庭，她对奥德丽·洛德和爱丽丝·沃克等作家的美国黑人女权主义小说和戏剧很熟悉；这些书巩固了她与非洲和亚洲女性后裔组织（OWAAD，成立于1978年）的女性之间的归属感：“当我走进她们的家，我们的书架都是一样的，你知道，你总是会在上面看到同样的书。”与书籍、小册子和期刊的关系不仅基于它们具有煽动性的思想，而且还基于它们的实体存在，通过Virago Classics的深绿色封面或书籍装订的气味来传达感官。正如女权主义书商菲利帕·哈里森（Philippa Harrison）所描述的那样，“在书店里看到那些绿色书籍的旋转者，女性之间有一种共同的快乐。”书籍和其他文本在女权主义中的中心地位是由书籍所处的环境所塑造的。对许多人来说，这是通过书店的独特气味和浏览或姿势
Her violent reaction to Anna Coedt’s The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, which she threw across the room on first reading, was testament to how challenging these texts could be, bringing up painful sentiments when they ‘detonated’ in women’s lives. Print culture could also generate solidarities, both through the ideas it conveyed, and also through its comforting material presence. Stella Dadzie, a key Black British feminist activist, recalled the way in which Black American feminist novels and plays by writers such as Audre Lorde and Alice Walker were familiar to her from visits to other activist households; the books cemented her sense of community with women in the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD, founded 1978): ‘when I go into their houses, our bookshelves are all the same, y’know, you’ll always see the same books on them’. The relationship to books, pamphlets and periodicals was based not only on their provocative ideas, but also on their physical presence, conveyed sensorially through the deep green covers of Virago Classics or the smell of book bindings. As feminist bookseller Philippa Harrison described it, ‘there was a mutual female pleasure in seeing those spinners of green books in a bookshop’. The centrality of books and other texts within feminism was shaped by the settings in which books were encountered. For many, this was through the bookshop with its distinctive smells and postures of browsing or