Frequently asked questions

Answered by a team member at The Feminist Press

• What is your mission?

  The Feminist Press publishes books that ignite movements and social transformation. Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent and marginalized voices from around the world to build a more just future.

• How are donations used?

  Grants and donations help us uplift issues that need to be unearthed or examined in a mission-driven way. In addition to supporting our operations and outreach, contributions from our donor partners help us create and promote diverse and insurgent books, accessible events and programming, and our book donation initiative.

• What is the history of your organization?

  Founded in 1970, we began as a crucial publishing component of second wave feminism, reprinting feminist classics by writers such as Zora Neale Hurston and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and providing much-needed texts for the developing field of women’s studies with books by Barbara Ehrenreich and Grace Paley. We publish feminist literature from around the world, by best-selling authors such as Shahrnush Parsipur, Ruth Kluger, and Ama Ata Aidoo; and North American writers of diverse race and class experience, such as Paule Marshall and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto. We have become the vanguard for books on contemporary feminist issues of equality and gender identity, with authors as various as Anita Hill, Justin Vivian Bond, and Ann Jones.