Title Closely and consciously : reading and the US women's liberation movement / Yung-Hsing Wu

Published Amherst : University of Masssachusetts Press, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource Contents One Reading at a Time, Consciously -- The Closeness of Feminist Reading -- Reading the Imagination -- What's So Wrong with Women Reading? -- Campus Reading Summary "The significant archive of writing that came out of the women's liberation movement in the United States, from 1965 to 1980, speaks to the value activists placed on reading as an act that is at once personal and yet also about the collective good. Yung-Hsing Wu examines the importance of reading--personal, professional, vocational, aesthetic, and always political--and how the act itself brought a host of women, each with their own history with the movement, into relation, and into a belief in that relation. The value given to reading can be seen in the ways feminists pursued media representation; in consciousness-raising (CR) groups including shared reading in their meetings; in women opening bookstores, developing newsletters, establishing journals, and starting presses; and in corporate publishers pursuing feminist fiction. Closely and Consciously crisscrosses distinct print spheres, including newsletters and periodicals produced by feminist cells and consciousness-raising groups, feminist presses seeking to articulate their visions for women's writing, the emergence of feminist literary criticism in first-time monographs and newly established journals, personal and editorial correspondence, press records, and the publishing histories of bestsellers that testified to the increasingly broad popularity of women's writing. Uniting all these disparate activists and media outlets, and providing crucial relationality, was reading. With a mix of close readings and archival research, Wu unpacks and interprets this central act of reading and why it matters during a crucial moment of feminist history"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Feminist literary criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Feminists -- Books and reading -- United States -- History -- 20th century Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism Feminist fiction, American -- History and criticism Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice. LITERARY CRITICISM / General Genre/Form Electronic books Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2024033086 ISBN 9781685751180 1685751180 9781685751173 1685751172

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