Women’s Review of Books shut down

Wellesley College’s Women’s Review of Books will stop being published after the end of the year. Sad!
The Women’s Review was a journal on fiction and nonfiction writings by and about women, and had been around for 21 years
Susan Bailey, the executive director of the Wellesley Centers for Women said of the publication: “It’s very sad…because it is one of the last publications of its kind, focusing on women’s writing and women’s voices, reviewing books by large publishers as well as smaller presses, and providing opportunities for intellectual experiences and exchanges in a setting where women’s voices were at the center.”
Author and sometimes-reviewer for the journal, E.J. Graff added that “it was one of the last truly lively feminist publications I can think of…I think of it as part of the loss of room for feminist discussion. A lot of us are upset about the shrinking of media space, print and broadcast, for ideas that put women’s lives at the center instead of as a footnote.”
How annoying that women’s academic pubs aren’t supported enough to sustain themselves…ugh.