Unpacking the Bookstore

Women With a Mission

Women and Children First continues to break down barriers for what I had constituted as the primary function of bookstores—which up until now, I had considered to be to sell books. From the very beginning though, Women and Children First had been breaking down...

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Women and Children First: A Meeting Place

As I meander virtually up North Clark Street in the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago, courtesy of Google Street View, I recognize few of the businesses surrounding the feminist bookstore Women and Children First.  North Clark Street, the location of the...

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