2000: A Feminist Odyssey

Dear friend of FP,

Today, as we journey through the Feminist Press’s lifetime in celebration of our Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, we’re taking a step back in time to remember FP at the start of the new millenium.

In 2000, the Feminist Press moved to its current institutional home at the CUNY Graduate Center. The 2000s saw Florence Howe’s retirement as Executive Director, and the publication of a vast array of new and prescient feminist titles, from Marilyn French’s In the Name of Friendship to the expanded edition of Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines, reissued last year in honor of FP’s fiftieth anniversary.

2010 ushered in another decade of milestones, including the founding of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and continued critical acclaim for titles like Brontez Purnell’s Since I Laid My Burden Down, winner of a 2018 Whiting Award, and Michelle Tea's Against Memoir, winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. And through all of it, the Feminist Press’s work was made possible by donors like you!

Do you want to help celebrate FP’s history of accomplishments, and support us to achieve new milestones? Make a donation today! Your contribution will sustain our Press for the next fifty years of new and necessary feminist publishing.

In solidarity,

The Feminist Press team—Lauren, Rachel, Lucia, Jisu, Nick, Drew, Amy, Yannise, and Jackie