Wikipedia: male novelists are “novelists,” female novelists are “women novelists”
Oh, Wikipedia! You encyclopedic embodiment of the male gaze, look what you’ve done now. The category “American Novelists” includes virtually no women. Attempting to contain the expanding category, Wikipedia editors recently created… Read more »
Is writing by women central yet?
Virago Books was founded forty years ago, and an article by Kira Cochrane in the Guardian asks whether the publishing landscape has changed for women since 1973. Carmen Callil started the company… Read more »
Gender bias in literary criticism: solutions
Last week, the annual VIDA count revealed the continuing gender bias in US journalism and literary criticism. This topic’s attracted significant attention this past year, thanks in large part to… Read more »
WAYBACK MACHINE: Women and The New Yorker
The internet is atwitter over the findings of the newest VIDA survey, which looked at the representation of “Women In Literary Arts” and found, once again, that things are far… Read more »