Onlywomen Press

Onlywomen Press (briefly known as The Women's Press^[1][2]) was a feminist press based in London. It was the only feminist press to be founded by out lesbians, Lilian Mohin, Sheila Shulman, and Deborah Hart.^[1] It commenced publishing in 1974 and was one of five notably active feminist publishers in the 1990s.^[3][4][5]

Onlywomen was unique from other British feminist presses because it both printed and published material. This allowed them to control all parts of the "chain of cultural production"^[6] and to "subsidize publishing activity"^[6] by printing books.

Between 1986 and 1988 it published the journal Gossip: A Journal of Lesbian Feminist Ethics.^[7][1]

Writers published in the press often read their work at Gay's the Word bookshop.^[8]

A number of noted lesbian writers published by Onlywomen Press include Anna Livia, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Jay Taverner, Celia Kitzinger and Sue Wilkinson, Sylvia Martin and Sheila Jeffreys.

Its last book, a children's book, was published in 2010.^[3]

Works published

Fiction

• Livia, Anna (1988). Bulldozer Rising. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500279.
• Forbes, Caroline (1985). The Needle on Full: Lesbian Feminist Science Fiction. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 978-0906500194.
• Klepfisz, Irena (1985). Different Enclosures: The Poetry and Prose of Irena Klepfisz. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500170.
• Livia, Anna (1986). Incidents Involving Warmth: A Collection of Lesbian Feminist Love Stories.
• Dorcey, Mary (1989). A Noise from the Woodshed. ISBN 9780906500309.
• Livia, Anna; Mohin, Lilian (1989). The Pied Piper: Lesbian Feminist Fiction. Onlywomen. ISBN 9780906500293.
• Duncker, Patricia, ed. (1990). In and Out of Time: Lesbian Feminist Fiction. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500378.
• Natzler, Caroline (1990). Water Wings. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500385.
• Edwards, Nicky (1990). Stealing Time. Onlywomen. ISBN 9780906500316.
• Arrowsmith, Pat (1998). Many Are Called. Onlywomen. ISBN 978-0906500590.
• Dykewomon, Elana (2000). Beyond the Pale: A Novel. Onlywomen. ISBN 9780906500637.

Poetry

• Mohin, Lilian, ed. (1979). One Foot on the Mountain: An Anthology of British Feminist Poetry, 1969-1979. Onlywomen Press Limited. ISBN 978-0906500019.
• Carthew, Natasha (1999) Flash Reckless ISBN 9780906500705.
• Dorcey, Mary (1982). Kindling. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500095. 978-0906500705
• Grahn, Judy (1985). The Work of a Common Woman. Only women. ISBN 9780906500200.
• Mohin, Lilian (1987). Beautiful Barbarians: Lesbian Feminist Poetry. Onlywomen. ISBN 9780906500231.
• Namjoshi, Suniti (1989). Because of India: Selected Poems and Fables. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500330.
• Hacker, Marilyn (1990). The Hang-glider's Daughter: New and Selected Poems. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500361.
• Foley, Kate (1994). Soft Engineering. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500514.
• Kendall, Tina (1995). Lightning On My Tongue. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 978-0906500507.
• Dykewomon, Elana (1995). Nothing will be as sweet as the taste. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 0906500575.
• Mohin, Lilian, ed. (1999). Not for the Academy: Lesbian Poets. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500606.

Nonfiction

• Rhodes, Dusty; McNeill, Sandra, eds. (1985). Women Against Violence Against Women. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 0906500168.
• Lucia Hoagland, Sarah; Penelope, Julia, eds. (1988). For Lesbians Only: A Separatist Anthology. Onlywomen. ISBN 9780906500286.
• Jay, Karla; Glasgow, Joanne, eds. (1992). Lesbian Texts and Contexts: Radical Revisions.
• Kitzinger, Celia; Perkins, Rachel (1993). Changing Our Minds: Lesbian Feminism and Psychology. NYU Press. ISBN 9780814746455.
• Raitt, Suzanne, ed. (1995). Volcanoes and Pearl Divers: Essays in Lesbian Feminist Studies. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 0906500486.
• Menasche, Ann (1997). Leaving the Life: Lesbians, Ex-Lesbians and the Heterosexual Imperative. Onlywomen. ISBN 978-0906500538.
• Martin, Sylvia (2001). Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton & Miles Franklin. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 9780906500644.

Papers

• Rich, Adrienne (1981). Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian existence. ISBN 0906500079.
• Leeds Revolutionary Feminist Group (1981). Love Your Enemy?: The Debate Between Heterosexual Feminism and Political Lesbianism. Onlywomen Press. ISBN 0906500087.

References

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