In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that investigate the dynamic print culture that emerged as the feminist movement reawakened in the late 1960s. Works created by women shined a light on taboo topics and offered inspiring accounts of personal transformation. Yet, as the essayists reveal, the texts coalesced into something far greater: a distinct and influential American literary renaissance. On the one hand, feminists took control of the process by building a network of publishers and distributors owned and operated by women. On the other, women writers threw off convention to venture into radical and experimental forms, poetry, and genre storytelling, and in so doing created works that raised the consciousness of a generation. Examining feminist print culture from its structures and systems to defining texts by Margaret Atwood and Alice Walker, This Book Is an Action suggests untapped possibilities for analyzing the diverse range of literary production during feminism's second wave.