Produced by a collective, each issue of Heresies is a special: Feminism and Ecology, Third World Women, Women Working Together and Sexuality have been among their subjects. Some of the material is a grind — theoretical, rhetorical stuff on feminism as a subject. Some of it is revelatory, especially that dealing with feminism as a practice or perspective. Everything they publish has consequence, and the art they include is striking — images that hit home.
There are scores of excellent feminist magazines, from stately small-press literary journals to scholarly quarterlies to outraged
tabloids to the rangier, avant-garde offering of Heresies. Its inclusion here as the sole representative of all that rich cultural
