The Women In Print Movement (WIP) began in August 1976 when a group of Canadian and American women, influenced by second wave feminism, sought to create explicitly feminist spaces and publications within the realms of book history and print production. These women included feminist distributors, editors, printers, publishers, readers, retailers, and writers who all worked to deconstruct the intersections of gender and power in society through print. In doing so, they not only created feminist publications, but also feminist presses and feminist bookstores that brought WIP to communities throughout the United States and Canada.
While WIP ceased to exist by the 1990s, the history of the movement’s people, places, and publications is still readily accessible through both digital and physical means. WIP material presents a rich field of inquiry for scholars of the book, feminism, gender studies, literature, queer studies, or women’s history.
This guide outlines archival collections, WIP anthologies and books, WIP publications, secondary sources on WIP, and a bibliography to connect a diverse range of scholars to important material on this movement. The archival resources page lists repositories with physical and/or digital collections related to people, places, and publications of WIP. The anthologies and books page includes foundational texts from the movement. The publications page lists important WIP newsletters, newspapers, and bulletins as well as ways to access their archives. The secondary sources page includes major works on WIP, accompanied by a brief annotation of each resource.
