Subverse Aphrodesia

In 1997, 175 feminist bookstores dotted the country, but today only about 35 are still in business. Read Rachel Corbett's "Women's Bookstores Dwindle to Stalwart Few."

She writes: "As bookstores disappear, so do the intellectual community centers they once provided for browsing and attending talks and readings.

Quoting Linda Bubon, owner of Women and Children First in Northside Chicago: "There is a struggle for public space, period. It is desperately needed in a democracy."