It takes a lot for a bookstore, especially a small one, to endure. Lurking around every corner is always some calamity—global pandemics, property taxes, overwhelming competition from a massive online retailer offering same-day shipping. And yet not every small bookstore can say that feminist writer and theorist bell hooks has stood atop its checkout counter as if it were a soapbox. BookWoman, Austin’s nearly fifty-year-old feminist bookstore, can.BookWoman started its life on Guadalupe Street in 1975 under the name the Common Woman Bookstore. It then migrated to current owner Susan Post’s house, which was near the University of Texas campus; then to Sixth Street; then to Twelfth and Lamar; and finally, in 2008, to 5501 N. Lamar Boulevard, where it’s currently nestled between a plant…
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