Chrysalis (magazine)

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Cover of Volume 1, 1977

Chrysalis: A Magazine of Women's Culture was a feminist publication produced from 1977 to 1980.

Over a three-year span, the all volunteer staff produced ten issues before they were forced to disband in 1981 due to financial difficulties.

Topics

Like the east coast publication Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, which was founded the same year, Chrysalis served the burgeoning second-wave feminist movement. Art historian Jenni Sorkin compares the legacy of the two, writing "While Heresies remains the better-known publication, it is Chrysalis that engaged a broader public, covering progressive issues that affected the women’s community at large without taking an insular view of art world-only politics, or the thematic issues for which Heresies became widely known."[4]

The editors of Chrysalis called the magazine "a vehicle for exploring the radical changes which women are initiating in the realms of theory and praxis."

lesbianism; feminist art and literature; and women’s domestic life. Volume 7 featured Adrienne Rich
's important essay "'Disloyal to Civilization': Feminism, Racism, and Gynephobia."

References

  1. ^ Allen, Gwen (2011). Artists Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. p. 249.
  2. ^ "Feminist art magazines or women artists magazines and newsletters". KT Press. Retrieved 27 October 2015.
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  4. ^ Sorkin, Jenni. "Second Life: Chrysalis". East of Borneo. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
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