Behind the Making of the “Feminist Whole Earth Catalog”
Date
August 16th, 2018
Credits
- Meg Miller 4 Author
It’s the pre-internet feminist internet
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I knew the names of Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie from the masthead of Chrysalis, the ’70s feminist cult magazine they ran out of the Women’s Building in Los Angeles, enlisting no less than trailblazing feminist designer Sheila Levrant de Bretteville to art direct and design it. But before that, the co-editors worked together on another, lesser known publishing project called The New Woman’s Survival Catalog. At the time, the book was billed as the “feminist Whole Earth Catalog,” Stewart Brand’s famed counterculture magazine that focused on ecology, DIY, and holism during its 1968-1972 reign.
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