Second Wave Feminism  Tags: second_wave_feminism women feminism women's_liberation women's_history modern_women's_movement feminist_organizations feminist_magazines  

Women’s liberation periodicals are primary sources for studying Second Wave feminism. To find them in Madcat, go to Advanced Search and set up your search as below:

Click on "set limits" and set up a search for the range of years 1967-1979, English language, and type journal/serial. Click on "set limits" again. Now, from the search screen, set up as follows:

Search for

feminis?                 any             as      Subject

OR

women?                 any             as      Subject

OR

lesbian?                 any             as      Subject

Clilck on Search.

What you'll get is all periodical publications that started publishing between 1967 and 1979 that have feminist, feminism, women, women's,  lesbian  or lesbians in a subject word. You can re-sort by date, oldest first, if you want to.

Here are some early examples (search for these in Madcat by journal title.)

Ain't I a Woman? (1970-74), from Iowa City

The Amazon (1972-1985) , from Milwaukee

Amazon Quarterly:  a Lesbian Feminist Arts Journal (1973-74)

Big Mama Rag (1972-1984)

Black Maria (1972-84), from River Forest, Ill.

Bread & Rose (1977-1984),  from Madison, WI

Cold Day in August (1972-73), from  Baltimore

Common Woman and Common Woman is the Revolution (1971), from Berkeley

Country Women (1973-74), from San Francisco

CWLU News : Newsletter of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1970-?)

Dandelion (1972-80), from Philadelphia

Distaff (1974-75), from New Orleans

Echo of Sappho (1972-1973), from Brooklyn

Encuentro Femenil: the First Chicana Feminist Journal (1973), from San Fernando, CA

Feminist Art Journal (1972 -77)

 Feminist Times (1972) from New York

The Feminist Voice (1971-72), from Chicago

The Furies: Lesbian Feminist Monthly (1972-73), from Washington, DC

Gold Flower (1971-79), from Minneapolis

Her_self (1972-77), from Ann Arbor

It Ain't Me Babe (1970-71), from Berkeley

A Journal of Female Liberation (1968-71), from Cambridge, MA

Lesbian Tide (1972-1980), from Altadena, CA, is in LGBT Life with Fulltext database

Lilith (1968-70), from Seattle

Maine Freewoman's Herald (1975-78), from Portland

Majority Report (1971-77), from New York

Marin Women's News Journal (1973-75), from San Rafael, CA

The Mother Jones Gazette (1973?), from Knoxville

Minority Report (1969-70), from Dayton

Ms (1972- ), from New York

Moving Out (1972-73), from Detroit

New Directions for Women in New Jersey (1972-75); 1975-1993: called New Directions for Women

New York Radical Feminists newsletter (1972-76)

Newsreport (Women Against Pornography) (1979-87), from New York

 Notes from the ... year : women’s liberation (1971), from New Yor

 off our backs (1970-), from Washington, DC, is in GenderWatch database

Off the Pedestal: Bay Area Women’s Liberation newsletter (1969),  from Berkeley

The OptiMSt (1975-    ), from Yukon, Canada, is in GenderWatch database

Pandora (1970-79), from Seattle

Quest: a feminist quarterly (1974-1982), from Washington, DC

Scarlet Letter (1971-72), Madison, WI

Second Wave (19771-80), Boston

Sister : the Monthly Newsletter of New Haven Women's Liberation (1974-79)

Sister: West Coast Feminist Newspaper (1973-75), from Venice, CA

Sojourner (1975-    ), from Boston -- see the book Frontline feminism 1975-1995: essays from Sojourner’s first 20 years

Spokeswoman (1971-81), from Chicago and elsewhere

Tell_a_woman (1972-73), from Philadelphia

Triple Jeopardy (1972), from the Third World Women’s Alliance, from Berkeley          

US Magazine (1973-74), from Tampa

Voices of  the Women's Liberation (1968-69), from Chicago

What She Wants (1973-84), from  Cleveland

Whole Woman (1972-74), from  Madison, WI

Women in Libraries (1975-  ), from New York and elsewhere

Women’s Action Movement newsletter, early 1970s,  from Madison, WI

Women's Press (1970- 87), from Eugene, OR