The Women's Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the
written word's power to incite social change. In this new
collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays
that reveal how second-wave feminists embraced this potential with
a vengeance. The authors in This Book Is an Action investigate the
dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement
reawakened in the late 1960s. The works created by women shined a
light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal
transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts represented
something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary
renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process
by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and
operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention
to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre
storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the
consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture
from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret
Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped
possibilities for the critical and aesthetic analysis of the
diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave.
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