Amazon Bookstore Cooperative corporate records 1970-2012

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Amazon Bookstore Cooperative corporate records 1970-2012

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Collection contains documentation by and about the Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, a feminist women's bookstore founded in Minneapolis in 1970 and for many years the oldest operating women's bookstore in the United States.

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University of Minnesota Libraries. Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies

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Amazon Bookstore Cooperative

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The Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, Inc. was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1970 by two women who sold books from the front porch of their home. Their objective was to sell books and materials on the women's liberation movement and women's issues published by women-owned presses. The bookstore was subsequently named the Amazon Bookstore, for the mythological tribe of women warriors. At its closing in 2012, Amazon Bookstore Cooperative was the oldest independent femin...

Amazon Bookstore

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The Amazon Bookstore Cooperative, Inc. was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1970 by two women who began to sell books from the front porch of their living collective. Their focus was to disseminate books and materials on the women's liberation movement published by small, women-owned presses. The bookstore was subsequently named the Amazon Bookstore, for the mythological tribe of women warriors. Amazon Bookstore is the oldest independent feminist bookstore in the United States; offering "pro...