Kate Eichhorn: The Archival Turn in Feminism

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>A window into the preservation of contemporary feminist documents and artifacts and how this archival activism has advanced intergenerational political alliances<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439909515&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>The Archival Turn in Feminism</h1> <H2>Outrage in Order</H2> <h3>Kate Eichhorn</h3> <P>cloth 1-4399-0951-2 $69.50, Jul 13, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-4399-0953-9 $69.50 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Not Yet Published Preorder</FONT> <BR> 208 pp 5.5x8.5 1 figure 4 halftones </P><BLOCKQUOTE><I>"</I>The Archival Turn in Feminism <I> is original, theoretically sophisticated, and compelling in its implications. Kate Eichhorn effectively situates the recent archival investment in Riot Grrrl and other supposed ‘Third Wave’ forms of feminism in the longer history of feminist efforts to narrate the movement's past. She argues with admirable clarity that archives should not simply be treated as spaces of preservation but rather as active responses to the complex demands of particular historical conditions. Eichhorn's book is well informed about the recent history of practices of librarianship and archiving and the kind of rethinking that the work of Foucault and Derrida has provoked among professionals charged with selecting, organizing, and preserving historical records for the future. Her book is a welcome achievement." </I> <br>&#151<b>Janice Radway</b>, Professor of Communication Studies at Northwestern University, and co-editor of <I>American Studies: An Anthology</I><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>In the 1990s, a generation of women born during the rise of the second wave feminist movement plotted a revolution. These young activists funneled their outrage and energy into creating music, and zines using salvaged audio equipment and stolen time on copy machines. By 2000, the cultural artifacts of this movement had started to migrate from basements and storage units to community and university archives, establishing new sites of storytelling and political activism. <P><i>The Archival Turn in Feminism</i> chronicles these important cultural artifacts and their collection, cataloging, preservation, and distribution. Cultural studies scholar Kate Eichhorn examines institutions such as the Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture at Duke University, The Riot Grrrl Collection at New York University, and the Barnard Zine Library. She also profiles the archivists who have assembled these significant feminist collections. <P>Eichhorn shows why young feminist activists, cultural producers, and scholars embraced the archive, and how they used it to stage political alliances across eras and generations. <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><i>"Eichhorn does a great job of interrogating and articulating the importance of the archive. Her thoughts on temporality and its function struck me as accurate and provocative, and she provides new ways to think about feminist generations. This is not simply a book about the meaning of contemporary feminist cultural productions, it's a book about how history and the present are constructed."</I><br>&#151<b>Alison Piepmeier</b>, Associate Professor and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at the College of Charleston, and author of <I>Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism</I> <p><i>"Eichhorn chronicles complex issues and questions regarding the archiving of feminist materials, and, through three case studies, examines the content and value of specific feminist archives.... Along with profiles of the women who created these organizations, Eichhorn provides deeper analyses of topics ranging from questions of reconciliation that come with seeking establishment space for radical materials to the degree to which archives dispel myths.... Eichhorn answers the radical/establishment reconciliation question by pointing out how many conventional feminist archives have had unorthodox origins, and emphasizes that the archive is 'a potential site of resistance,'.... [T]he questions Eichhorn raises will deepen a necessary debate."</I> <br>&#151<b><I>Publishers Weekly</I></b> <BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P> <p>Preface <br>Introduction <br> <br>1. The “Scrap Heap” Reconsidered: Selected Archives of Feminist Archiving <br>2. Archival Regeneration: The Zine Collections at the Sallie Bingham Center <br>3. Redefining a Movement: The Riot Grrrl Collection at Fales Library and Special Collections <br>4. Radical Catalogers and Accidental Archivists: The Barnard Zine Library <br>Conclusion <br> <br>Notes <br>Works Cited <br>Index</p> </P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Kate Eichhorn</b> is Assistant Professor of Culture and Media Studies at The New School.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/american.html" TARGET="_top">American Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/literature.html" TARGET="_top">Literature and Drama</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/women.html" TARGET="_top">Women's Studies</a> </p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781439909515&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2013 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. 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