What follows is a talk I gave (over zoom) on June 29, 2022, for the London Rare Book School. I’m deeply grateful to Elizabeth Savage for the invitation to speak—both for her original invitation to deliver this in person back in the summer of 2020 and for her invitation to revisit this as a zoom talk now. Back when we had first planned this, I was in the early public stages of talking about feminist bibliography; now, I think, I’m maybe a bit closer to a sense of what I’m up to in thinking about FemBib. Or, at least, I have a clearer sense that part of what I’m up to doesn’t involve answers, but focuses on questions and on the intersections between materiality/ideology, personal/political, academia/public scholarship, bibliography/not-bibliography, text/not-text. I’m sharing this talk because it most accurately reflects the place that I’m in right now, and I have not yet…
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notes on feminist bibliography
One of my current projects has been thinking about what a feminist practice of bibliography looks like. As I’ve shared before, I struggled when writing my book to figure out how to build a feminist stance when I was focused on machines and processes rather than people. How do we create a feminist printing history when we’re not doing a history of a women printing? Over the past couple of years I’ve given a few lectures and led a few workshops on the topic, and I wanted to collect some of that work in a single place to help others join in this work. In December 2018 I gave the Lieberman Lecture for the American Printing History Association. You can watch “Working toward a Feminist Printing History” on YouTube (with or without captions); there’s also a transcript linked in the video description. I am grateful to Jesse Erickson and the…