How to Suppress Women’s Writing (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Joanna Russ
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Tradition, Sexism, Gender roles, Authors or writers, Literature, Writing, Feminism, Women, Criticism
Form and Content
In this witty analysis of the critical reception of women’s literature, Nebula Award-winning science-fiction writer Joanna Russ explores the social connections of literature and art from a feminist perspective. Russ stresses that her discussion is not a history of oppression; rather, it is an investigation of the ways in which women’s writing has been suppressed, discouraged, and marginalized.
How to Suppress Women’s Writing traces patterns in the suppression of women’s writing, mostly by male critics, drawing on examples from high culture...
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