Review: Kristen Hogan: The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability

In lieu of an abstract, here is the first paragraph of the review: If Kristen Hogan’s time at the Toronto Women’s Bookstore was “a love story,” (Hogan 86) then her book The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability is the longest ‘Dear John’ letter ever written. While Hogan fell in love with Feminist Bookstores during the 1990s and the 2000s, this books chronicles the long war and eventual defeat of feminist bookstores by capitalist bookstores. Hogan charted the rise and fall of the feminist bookstore movement through the lifespan of the Feminist Bookstore News, beginning in 1976 and ending at the dawn of the 21st century. Through creating the historical narrative of the Feminist Bookstore movement, Kristen Hogan also introduces the ideas of lesbian antiracist accountability, the feminist shelf, and feminist remembering. These three concepts are important additions to feminist thought and should be further analyzed within the discipline.