How to Suppress Women's Writing /
Russ, Joanna
How to Suppress Women's Writing / Joanna Russ. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. Prohibitions -- 2. Bad Faith -- 3. Denial of Agency -- 4. Pollution of Agency -- 5. The Double Standard of Content -- 6. False Categorizing -- 7. Isolation -- 8. Anomalousness -- 9. Lack of Models -- 10. Responses -- 11. Aesthetics -- Epilogue -- Author’s Note -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index
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Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique. “What is it going to take to break apart these rigidities? Russ’s book is a formidable attempt. It is angry without being self-righteous, it is thorough without being exhausting, and it is serious without being devoid of a sense of humor. But it was published over thirty years ago, in 1983, and there’s not an enormous difference between the world she describes and the world we inhabit.”—Jessa Crispin, from the foreword “A book of the most profound and original clarity. Like all clear-sighted people who look and see what has been much mystified and much lied about, Russ is quite excitingly subversive. The study of literature should never be the same again.”—Marge Piercy “Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer, a writer of real moral passion and high wit.”—Adrienne Rich
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781477316283
10.7560/316252 doi
2017048972
Authorship--Sex differences.
Censorship.
Women authors, American--History and criticism.
Women authors, English--History and criticism.
Women in literature--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PN471 / .R87 2018 PN471 / .R87 2018
809/.89287
How to Suppress Women's Writing / Joanna Russ. - 1 online resource (224 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. Prohibitions -- 2. Bad Faith -- 3. Denial of Agency -- 4. Pollution of Agency -- 5. The Double Standard of Content -- 6. False Categorizing -- 7. Isolation -- 8. Anomalousness -- 9. Lack of Models -- 10. Responses -- 11. Aesthetics -- Epilogue -- Author’s Note -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Are women able to achieve anything they set their minds to? In How to Suppress Women’s Writing, award-winning novelist and scholar Joanna Russ lays bare the subtle—and not so subtle—strategies that society uses to ignore, condemn, or belittle women who produce literature. As relevant today as when it was first published in 1983, this book has motivated generations of readers with its powerful feminist critique. “What is it going to take to break apart these rigidities? Russ’s book is a formidable attempt. It is angry without being self-righteous, it is thorough without being exhausting, and it is serious without being devoid of a sense of humor. But it was published over thirty years ago, in 1983, and there’s not an enormous difference between the world she describes and the world we inhabit.”—Jessa Crispin, from the foreword “A book of the most profound and original clarity. Like all clear-sighted people who look and see what has been much mystified and much lied about, Russ is quite excitingly subversive. The study of literature should never be the same again.”—Marge Piercy “Joanna Russ is a brilliant writer, a writer of real moral passion and high wit.”—Adrienne Rich
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781477316283
10.7560/316252 doi
2017048972
Authorship--Sex differences.
Censorship.
Women authors, American--History and criticism.
Women authors, English--History and criticism.
Women in literature--History and criticism.
Women in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
PN471 / .R87 2018 PN471 / .R87 2018
809/.89287