Authors:
By (author) Kirsten Grimstad And Susan Rennie
Publishers:
PRIMARY INFORMATION
Language:
IN
Date of Publication:
2019-12-27
Pages:
223
Limited Edition:
Facsimile edition - 4000 copies
The New Woman's Survival Catalog - Both practical and creative, this book was the entire Earth's catalog of feminism.
\nOriginally published in 1973, The New Woman's Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of second-wave feminist efforts in the United States. Edited by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie in just five months, The New Woman's Survival Catalog nods to Stewart Brand's influential Whole Earth Catalog by mapping a vast network of alternative feminist cultural activity in the 1970s.
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\nGrimstad and Rennie embarked on a two-month journey in the summer of 1973, meeting with and interviewing a range of organizations and individuals, and gathering vital information on everything from arts groups to independent bookstores and presses, to health, parenting, and rape crisis centers, as well as educational, legal, and financial resources. "These projects express a rejection of the values of existing institutional structures," Grimstad and Rennie write, "and, unlike the trendy male counterculture, represent an active attempt to reshape culture by changing values and consciousness."
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\nOrganized into thematic sections on art, communication, work and money, childcare, self-help, self-defense, and activism, the New Woman's Survival Catalog provides crucial information on feminist initiatives and activism nationwide during the women's movement. It includes a "Making the Book" section that details the production of the publication.
