| Sumario: | This article examines the inextricable links between any society and the publishing industry that serves it. I take the example of British non-fiction feminist anthologies to show how the dominant mode of capitalist publishing is antithetical to a radical feminist analysis of society and efforts to change it. The article falls into two main parts: first, an analytic history of feminist anthologies in Britain, which examines the connections between feminist anthology publishing and feminist social movements since the nineteenth century; and second, a critique of the literary-industrial complex and its effects on feminist publishing, which assesses the current institutional power politics of academia and publishing via a consideration of: the corporatisation of women's studies; the nature of canon formation; and the influence and evolution of technologies. Copyright (c) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd
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