Using the online archive and links to specific issues and topics I decided to look through and read some of the spare rib feminist magazines - Started in 1972.
Pages 3 & 4 of issue 116 - published March 1982 - showing a letter of complaint about the discussion of lesbians too often within Spare Ribs articles. The article also features a reply from the magazine.
Pages 3 & 4 of issue 116 - published March 1982
Issue 86 - published September 1979 - page 44
Spare rib and the underground press
Spare Rib magazine was the sister of the underground press, a term that applies to the 1960s, when an entire generation took direct control of the print communication media. Key to establishing a new youth-led counterculture, the underground press nevertheless reflected the views of its male editors, writers, photographers and illustrators. By the end of the decade, women working in the underground press reacted against this male/female hierarchy. Spare Rib evolved from that rebellion.
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