Beth Dingman Women In Print Files
Beth Dingman on the right
New Victoria Exhibit at ABA (year unknown) - sometime in 1990s
Name/Title
Beth Dingman Women In Print FilesEntry/Object ID
2024.19.4Tags
Finding Aid, New England, Women in Print (Books & Publishers)Scope and Content
One Bankers Box with 43 folders from various Women In Print participants including catalogs, conference programs, correspondence, photos, individual publisher notes and details, newsletters, directories and other items.Collection contains many items related to or by Feminist or Lesbian publishers, collected by Beth Dingman. Series #1: Women In Print - Photographs Series #2: Newsletters 1975-85 Series #3: Conference 1976 Series #4: Conference [1981, 1982, 1985] Series #5: ABA 1985-1989 Series #6: ABA 1990 Series #7: ABA Gay/Lesbian Aisle 1990-1994 Series #8: ABA 1995 (Booth # 1183) Series #9: ABA 1996 (Booth # 854) Series #10: ABA 1998 (Booth # 2806) Series #11: Misc. Lists Series #12: Articles on Gay/Lesbian Publishing Series #13: Carolina Wren Press Series #14: Press Gang Printers Series #15: Diana Press Series #16: Mother Courage Press Series #17: Iowa City Women’s Press Series #18: Metis Press Series #19: UP Press/ Women’s Press Project Series #20: Booklegger Publishing Series #21: Guide to Women’s Publishing Series #23: Kelsey St. Series #24: Daughters Series #25: Helaine Victoria Series #26: Clothespin Fever Series #27: Biblio Press Series #28: Tough Dove Books Series #29: Womyn’s Braille Press Series #30: Woman In The Moon (WIM) Series #31: Feminist Press Series #32: Shameless Hussy Press Series #33: New Victoria Series #34: Anyda Marchant- Founder of Naiad Press Series #35: Naiad Press Series #36: Women’s Press Collective Series #37: Pearlchild/ Tee Corinne Series #38: WomanPress Series #39: HerBooks Series #40: Various Catalogs Series #41: Contacts Series #42: Local Newsletters (Advertising) Series #43: Lists of Feminist PublishersContext
Beth Dingman is a feminist activist, printer, and co-founder of New Victoria Publishers, a women-run printing and publishing collective established in 1975. Dingman helped form an alternative, women-operated printing space modeled on collective labor and socially engaged publishing.In 1985, Dingman transitioned with collaborator Claudia McKay from printing services to full-scale publishing as New Victoria Publishers, shifting toward fiction and nonfiction works authored by Lesbian writers. Through New Victoria’s operation from 1975 to 2007, Dingman contributed meaningfully to feminist print culture, the development of independent women-owned publishing in the United States, and the preservation and dissemination of Lesbian creative and political expression.Collection
Women in PrintCategory
Finding Aid - Files