HERESIES : A FEMINIST PUBLICATION ON ART AND POLITICS. Numbers 1 - 26 (a complete run but for the last issue, #27). Twenty-six numbers in twenty-five volumes, numbers 18 and 19 being a double issue. Issue #5 is the second edition, with the variant cover, all others are first editions.

NEW YORK: The HERESIES COLLECTIVE, 1977-1992.

Softcovers, 8.5x11 inches (but for numbers 14 and 15 that are 10x12 inches and side stapled), approx. 100 pages per issue.

The collection belonged to Anne Taylor Gibson and Annie Cheatham. Anne Taylor Gibson's signature is on the first page of the first issue, and issue #20 has "Annie Cheatham's Copy" written at the top of the first page. Laid into issue #20 are two relevant items. One is a 5 page article by Betty Friedan that was folded and sent to Ann Gibson by Annie Cheatham (based on her return address). The second item is a handwritten note to Anne from another woman thanking her for the loan of these issues, it is written on a lovely 1983 postcard from the Women's Peace Encampment at Seneca Army Depot. The back cover of this issue is of a man proudly displaying his tee shirt that says "Nuke The Bitches - The Women's Peace Encampment". Yikes.

All 26 numbers / 25 issues are in generally GOOD condition, there is some edge, spine end, and corner wear here and there to the covers, a few articles have some underlining and a bit of yellow highlighting, there is foxing to the page edges (page edges of the closed issues), the first issue has some clear tape repair to its bottom corner and a couple rusty paper clips to a couple pages; overall the issues are just lightly used, complete, bright, clean, and clear. A solid, nearly complete run (lacking only the last issue) of this hard-to-find feminist publication of the 70's, 80's and 90's.

Included is a second copy (duplicate) of the double 18/19 issue.

About HERESIES (from Wikipedia):

******HERESIES was a feminist magazine published from 1977 to 1993, organized by a collective known as the Heresies Collective based in New York City. Each of the 27 issues (including the 18/19 double issue) was collectively edited by a group of volunteers interested in a single topic under the guidance of the "mother collective"; each issue had its own style and perspective. Subjects included feminist theory, art, politics, patterns of communication, lesbian art and artists, women's traditional arts and crafts, and politics of aesthetics, violence against women, working women, women from peripheral nations, women and music, sex, film, activism, racism, postmodernism, and coming of age.

The journal was seen not only as a major contribution to the feminist art scene, but as a forum for feminist thinking that experimented with an editorial format that asked contributors to grapple with hierarchical and societal issues of difference. And it created a public discourse in feminist thought and expression. Initial members of the Heresies Collective included Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Elizabeth Hess, Ellen Lanyon, Arlene Ladden, Lucy R. Lippard, Marty Pottenger, Miriam Schapiro and May Stevens.******

About the SENECA WOMEN'S ENCAMPMENT FOR A FUTURE OF PEACE (from Wikipedia):

******The Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice was a women only peace camp formed to protest the scheduled deployment of Cruise and Pershing II missiles before their suspected shipment from the Seneca Army Depot to Europe in the fall of 1983.

The camp took place mainly during the summer of 1983, from July 4 through Labor Day, concluding with a Labor Day Action honoring workers and highlighting the inflation and job loss that militarism brings. Thousands of women came to participate and rally against nuclear weapons and the patriarchal society that created and used those weapons.******

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