Daughters, Inc.

Daughters, Incorporated, or Daughters, Inc., was an American feminist publishing house founded in Plainfield, Vermont by June Arnold and Parke "Patty" Bowman in 1972. Daughters, Inc. primarily published works of feminist and lesbian fiction. The press was significant in feminist separatism and the women in print movement, an international effort by second-wave feminists to establish alternative communications networks of publishers, printers, and bookstores created by and for women.

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