THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
June Arnold
October 27, 1926 – March 11, 1982
“It is vital that we maintain control over our future, that we spend the energy of our imaginations and criticisms building feminist institutions that will benefit women, both in money and skills.” – June Arnold, “Feminist Presses & Feminist Politics,” Quest: A Feminist Quarterly 3.1, Summer 1976
Lesbian feminist activist, author and publisher. A principal organizer of the first Women in Print conference, which met in Omaha, Nebraska in August 1976. Drawing together women from publishing houses, magazines, newspapers, bookstores, printing companies and distribution services, the conference has been credited with significantly advancing the development of media branches within the women’s movement. Co-founded with Parke Bowman Daughters Inc., a feminist publishing house, 1972. A member of NOW and the Texas Institute of Letters, 1980.
More About June:
- “My Mother Was Many Things,” by Roberta Arnold, Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project
- “Side Trip: The Fifth Street Women’s Building Takeover: A Feminist Urban Action, January 1971,” by Liza Cowan, July 26, 2012
- Books and Articles by June Arnold
- “Creating a women’s world,” by Lois Gould for The New York Times Magazine, January 1977
- Wikipedia page
- About Daughters, Inc. on Wikipedia
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, page 20