Vintage "Conditions 5: The Black Women's Issue" (First Edition, 1979)

Description: Vintage "Conditions: Five -- The Black Women's Issue" Journal, circa 1979. Very good condition with minor fading on cover and binding. 221 pages. No tears or damage. Rare publication. See photos.

About: Conditions is a magazine of women's writing with an emphasis on writing by lesbians and feminist communities. Conditions: Five is an issue devoted entirely to writing by Black women, guest edited by Lorraine Bethel and Barbara Smith. Conditions 5 was the first widely distributed collection of Black feminist writing in the states and was later to be the basis for the anthology Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983), one of the first books released by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press. Conditions 5: The Black Women's Issue was hugely popular, and set a record in feminist publishing by selling 3,000 copies in the first three weeks it was available.

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