Founded in 1970 and dedicated to publishing works by and about women, the Feminist Press is the oldest women’s press in the nation. For over 30 years, it has been a leading force in extending the boundaries of intellectual endeavor to include the experiences, perspectives, and analyses of women and girls. The Press’s mission is grounded in the knowledge that women’s writing has often been absent or underrepresented and that such absences contribute to the exclusion of women from the literary canon, from historical record, and from public discourse.

A leader in independent publishing, the Feminist Press has a distinguished reputation as a pioneer in the republication of “lost” literary classics by such writers as Zora Neale Hurston, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Agnes Smedley, and Kate Chopin, as well as neglected contemporary classics by Paule Marshall, Dorothy West, Dorothy Bryant, Edith Konecky, and Mary Doyle Curran, among others.

The Feminist Press, under the leadership of Director and Publisher Jean Casella, continues to be recognized as a force for social change and its books as tools for transforming educational curricula and public consciousness.