Feminist Book Fortnight launch event - LIVESTREAMED ONLINE

Five Leaves Bookshop

Start your Feminist Book Fortnight in person at Five Leaves Bookshop, where Eleanor Careless and Jane Anger talk about the history of FBF.

Feminist Book Fortnight runs from Sat 14th May to Sat 28th May. Do join us for this launch event, which will be in person at Five Leaves Bookshop and livestreamed online. Note: you are looking at the online livestreamed event, <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/295386026557" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">register here instead for the in person event</a>.In 2018, Feminist Book Fortnight was held in the UK and abroad for the first time in twenty-seven years. But where did the idea to hold a Feminist Book Fortnight come from? The original Fortnight, which ran from 1984-1991, was an annual British book trade promotion which grew out of the flourishing women’s movements of the time.Join radical bookseller Jane Anger, who participated in the original Fortnight and led its revival in the twenty-first century, and Dr. Eleanor Careless, author of Feminist Book Fortnight: A Short History, for a discussion of the Fortnight’s history, its activist aims, distinctive regionalism, and relationship with the capitalist literary marketplace.Eleanor’s groundbreaking research and tonight’s event couldn’t have happened without the funding and enthusiasm of the <a href="https://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/businessofwomenswords/feminist-book-fortnight/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Business of Women’s Words</a> project (BOWW), led by Margaretta Jolly. BOWW explores the dramatic story of the feminist publishing revolution that unfolded during the UK Women’s Movements (WLM) of the 1970s, 80s and 90s, and their legacies for social movement inspired creative industries today.

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