Reach and Other Stories: Lesbian Feminist Fiction (The)
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Poster advertising The Reach and Other Stories: Lesbian Feminist Fiction, edited by Lilian Mohin and Sheila Shulman, and released in 1984 on Onlywomen Press. This was the first overtly lesbian-feminist fiction anthology published in England. Image: Gluck (1985-1978) self-portraitArtwork Details
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Lilian Mohin (September 2, 1938 – February 19, 2020) was a radical feminist, activist, poet, pioneer of feminist publishing, and co-founder of Onlywomen Press, a London-based publishing house primarily publishing feminist work. She remained the director of the company until 2015. Sheila Shulman (October 18, 1936 – October 25, 2014) was a pioneering American-British rabbi who founded the first gay and lesbian synagogue in London (Beit Klal Yisrael). Gluck (1895–1978) was a twentieth-century artist known particularly for portraits and floral paintings. The artist was born Hannah Gluckstein but adopted the genderless name ‘Gluck’ in 1918. Gluck chose to reject the strict gender norms of the time, wearing clothes traditionally worn by men, choosing short, cropped hair and smoking a pipe. Onlywomen Press was a pioneering London-based publisher founded in 1974 by radical lesbian feminists, operating until 2016. As the first and only UK press run entirely by lesbians, it focused on radical lesbian feminist fiction, poetry, and theory. Onlywomen also published Gossip: A journal of lesbian ethics which ran for about 6 issues from 1986-7.Category
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