How to Suppress Women's Writing / / Joanna Russ.

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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Other title: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
Summary: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
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781477316283
9783110745306
DOI:10.7560/316252
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Joanna Russ.