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Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine, 1969 to 1974, documents second wave feminist literary culture through women's fiction, poetry, essays, drama, art, criticism, and editorial statements written against male control of literary and commercial media. The magazine's title honored Aphra Behn, the seventeenth-century writer often identified as the first English woman to earn her living by writing, and the University of Connecticut Archives notes that Aphra was published quarterly from 1969 to 1976 and took its name from Behn. The archive belongs to feminist print culture and women's literary history, illustrating how women writers and artists used periodical publication to create recognition, critique sexist cultural production, and build a literary space responsive to women's experience. Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Pennsylvania and New York: Aphra, 1969 to 1974. Eight issues. The archive contains eight digest-format issues, each approximately 72 pages and measuring 6.75 x 8.5 inches, with short fiction, poetry, art, play excerpts, essays, criticism, contributor notes, and recurring feminist quotation or commentary features. The first issue's preamble states that the magazine sought to offer "work in which women can see themselves," giving readers "the identification and shock of recognition which art traditionally gives, but which is clearly underexpressed," and another UConn Archives account quotes the magazine's mission statement as "Free women thinking, doing, being." Across the group, contributors and subjects include Rosemary McDermott, Eva Hesse, Kimberley HMS Snow on Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Erica Jong, Joan Silber, Susan Hall, Dorothy Hage, Lydia Ressner, Renny Hartmann, Susan Griffin, Patricia Sloane, Margaret Atwood, Nelly Kaplan, Beth Bird, Dacia Maraini, Josephine Herbst, Anita Barrows, Barbara Chesser, Adrienne Rich, Esther Newton, Paula Webster, Daphne Patai, Cynthia D. Grant, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jane Augustine, Crescent Dragonwagon, and Isabel Bishop. [1] Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1. Pennsylvania: Aphra, 1969. First issue, titled "Free Women: Thinking, Doing, Being," with short fiction, poetry, and a play excerpt, establishing the periodical's editorial commitment to women's literary self-definition. [2] Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 1. Pennsylvania: Aphra, 1971 to 1972. Winter issue with poems, essays, and short stories including Rosemary McDermott's "I am the Immaculate Conception," and sculpture by Eva Hesse; purple cover with "Om" and "Women." [3] Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 2. Pennsylvania: Aphra, 1972. Spring issue with Kimberley HMS Snow on Kate Chopin's The Awakening, stories by Erica Jong and Joan Silber, and artwork by Susan Hall; brown cover with portraits of two women. [4] Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 3. Pennsylvania: Aphra, 1972. Summer issue with an essay by Dorothy Hage, short stories by Lydia Ressner, Renny Hartmann, and Susan Griffin, and art by Patricia Sloane; pink cover with green women's faces. [5] Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Vol. 3, No. 4. Pennsylvania: Aphra, 1972. Fall issue with poetry by Margaret Atwood and Barbara Gravelle, stories by Nelly Kaplan, Margaret Robinson, and Eleanor Hyde, and a photo essay by Beth Bird; red cover with "Free Women The Mirror Breaks." [6] Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 1. Pennsylvania: Aphra, 1972 to 1973. Winter issue themed "Fathers and Daughters," with a play by Dacia Maraini, stories by Josephine Herbst and Margaret Lamb, and poetry by Anita Barrows, Barbara Chesser, and Adrienne Rich. [7] Fisher, Elizabeth (ed.). Aphra: The Feminist Literary Magazine. Vol. 4, No. 3. Pennsylvania: Aphra, 1973. Summer issue themed "Matriarchy," with an essay by E.
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