This is the first year of operation for the Feminist History Society, so we are still in the early stages of developing advice for authors. We hope soon to be able to post a framework to evaluate and select book manuscripts, as well as more detailed authors’ writing guidelines.
But we are ready now if you would like to post your story about how you came to identify as a feminist. We would love to add your voice to the 94 women who wrote for Marguerite Andersen’s Feminist Journeys/Voies féministes. Please send your contribution to:
What we can also tell you now is that our first objective is to publish books about second-wave Canadian feminism. We are looking for a diverse array of topics, to cover our wide-ranging campaigns for social, economic, civil, political, legal, and cultural change. We will make every effort to be inclusive of gender, race, class, geography, culture, dis/ability, sexual identity, and age. We are open to a variety of formats, including autobiographies, biographies, single- and multi-themed volumes, edited collections, pictorial histories, plays, and novels. Above all, we seek writing with easily-readable styles, open to the many feminists who make up our extraordinarily rich movement.
Don’t be discouraged if you don’t have a book-length piece of writing yet. If you have a shorter piece, think about collaborating with others so that the work can be compiled into book-length format. We will be happy to serve as a nexus for connecting authors. And we hope to explore ways to post shorter works on our website soon.
Please feel free to contact us at info@FeministHistories.ca at any time. We would be pleased to speak with you further about your writing interests and plans.
Beth Atcheson and Constance Backhouse, co-editors of the Feminist History Society
