Sexuality, Women’s & Gender Studies

Formerly based in Ashfield, MA, Paris Press was a small, lesbian-led literary press that published the experimental and often overlooked work of women writers. Between 1993 and 2018, the Press printed original poetry chapbooks, assembled anthologies, and resurfaced plays, memoirs, and novels that had gone out of print. Published authors include Bryher, Virginia Woolf, Zdena Berger, Emily Dickinson, and Muriel Rukeyser among others.

Archives and Special Collections acquired press director Jan Freeman’s archive in 2018. The collection consists of nearly 80 linear feet of paper records (including letters, early manuscripts, study guides) and several terabytes of digital material that reflect the responsibilities and challenges of operating a small press.

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Congratulations to Kayla McKeon '22 and Lisa Zheutlin '22, co-winners of the David Kirp '65 Stonewall Prize!

Professor Rose Olver of Psychology and SWAGS was interviewed in 2008 as part of the Friends of the Amherst College Library: Oral History Project to capture on video interviews with members of the Amherst community whose involvement with the college has been long-standing and whose reminiscences seem likely to be of historical significance.

The Guardian speaks to SWAGS Professor Katrina Karkazis about the rules that ban female athletes with naturally high testosterone.