About the Feminist Press

The Feminist Press at the City University of New York is a nonprofit institution dedicated to publishing literary and educational works by and about women.  We are the oldest continuing feminist publisher in the world; our existence is grounded in the knowledge that mainstream publishers seeking mass audiences often ignore important, path-breaking works by women from the United States and throughout the world.    

The Feminist Press was founded in 1970.  In its early decades the Press launched the contemporary rediscovery of “lost” American women writers, and went on to publish significant works by American women writers of color.  Beginning in the 1980s, the Press has published international female writers who are still far less likely to be translated than male writers. The Feminist Press also publishes nonfiction exploring contemporary issues affecting the lives of women around the world.