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Article: Feminist bookstores: where women's lives matter; off our backs collective member Karla Mantilla interview Gina Mercurio of People Called Women, a feminist bookstore in Toledo, Ohio.(women and culture)(Interview)
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- off our backs
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- October 1, 2007
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oob: Tell me a bit about the history of People Called Women. How long has it been around, how was it founded?
GM: PCW opened in December of 1993. Feminist bookstores were always a lifeline for me personally when I lived in Seattle in the late 1970s and Boston in the mid 1980s to the early 1990s. I moved back to Toledo, my hometown, in 1993, having saved money from my work in mental health and borrowing the rest to open PCW. It was always my hope to open a feminist bookstore in Toledo, Ohio. It seemed to me that if social change was to happen nationally, it couldn't happen if it didn't happen in places like Toledo.
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