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Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South

Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Bellagio Publishing Network (1995), viii, 82 pp.

Contains bibliogr. pp. 80-82

Series: Bellagio Studies in Publishing, 5

"An attempt “to map a history of feminist or women's publishing in what is known as the Third or Southern World”, and a study of the challenges which women publishers face in developing countries. Examines feminist publishing in the North, South and Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Pacific. Also discusses the economics of publishing for women's presses, and marketing and distribution. States that women's presses “often find themselves pulled in two quite contrary directions: attempting to be successful in the marketplace, and balancing this with an adherence to feminist politics”; and “trying to strike a balance with publishing for social change in difficult trading conditions, and retaining financial stability at the same time." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2373)