I'm well aware that I'm lifting this post's title directly from a more famous blog dedicated to providing an "online community for feminists and their allies," but I feel that it is ever so appropriate for my afternoon adventure!
After exploring the neighborhood of Lavapies in search of a flamenco dance studio (that I eventually found -- along with some appropriate shoes for the course), I ended up at Libreria Mujeres, a small, funky feminist bookstore tucked away on a street between Sol and the Plaza Mayor. Despite its minimal square footage, the bookstore maximized its shelf space and carried translations of all of the major American titles (Woolf's Un Cuarto Propio, Beauvoir's El Segundo Sexo, and Cixous' La risa de la Medusa) that I have analyzed over and over again in courses at school. Although the texts weren't in English, it was comforting to come across familiar works and, at the same time, exciting to see the widespread distribution of women's writing!
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