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VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT: ALTA GERREYveteranfeminists2023-03-19T20:49:35-04:00

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Alta

“I called my press Shameless Hussy, because my mother used that term for women she didn’t approve of. And no one approved of what I was doing.”

British-American poet, prose writer and publisher. Founder of Shameless Hussy Press, the first feminist press in the United States, 1969. Editor of the Shameless Hussy Review. Owner of Alta Galleria

More About Alta:

  • Alta Galleria
  • “In the hands of feminist press, Calamity Jane rides again,” by Judith Coburn, April 26, 2016
  • Alta highlighted in She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, a 2014 American documentary film about some of the women involved in the second wave feminist movement. Directed by Mary Dore and co-produced by Nancy Kennedy
  • “Shameless Hussy Press, 1969-1989,” historical essay, by Lauren Kivlen, 2015
  • Wikipedia page
  • Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, pags 11,12

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