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By examining the progression of bad faith arguments used to belittle writing done by women, each progressively more desperate/illogical, Russ shows how flawed and dangerous much critical analysis of women‘s work can be. As someone who doesn‘t do a lot of academic reading, this was a slough in parts. However, Russ makes excellent points regarding the literary canon, college syllabi, and cultural values- and this was written in ‘83! ⬇️

I‘ve been in a bit of a reading slump the past few weeks, focusing on other things. Tonight I have some free time and I‘ve decided to check some books off of my currently reading list. I hope to finish the tagged at the very least. 🤞Does anyone else feel more motivated when you post on Litsy or is it just me?

Holy wow did this take a lot of concentration to get through. It's basically criticism about historical anti-woman literary criticism and literature. It didn't touch on intersectionality enough for my liking, but I'm not docking it points, because it did touch on it, and wherever not referenced, I could assume the intersectional repercussions. The copyright is 1983.

I loved seeing people's posts yesterday for #internationalwomensday

I meant to post something too but work was super busy and completely took my energy. So here's my post now, a small selection of women authors from my shelves. I've read the stack on the left, the stack on the right is still tbr.

This book is amazing and so well written. Russ is a white woman, so she focuses on the suppression of white women‘s writing, but touches on the fact that a lot of the same techniques are used to suppress the works of people of color and homosexuals (and artists and composers, in addition to writers). Her author‘s note is fully worth reading, as she provides a list of recommended books by black women.

#feminism #romantsy

This book still could have been written yesterday.

Just read this excerpt and now I need to read the whole book that is apparently still relevant 30 years later.... https://lithub.com/how-to-suppress-womens-writing-she-only-wrote-one-good-book/ #tbr

One more passage because I've never once considered this and my (very liberal) lib arts college taught these women in exactly this way.

So good I am reading with a pen.

A friend raved about how relevant this still was today so I'm cocooning for the evening with my journal and tea.

I found a copy of this, finally, in a bookstore near Cleveland and it is WRECKING ME. Written in 1983, could have been published today and not been one iota less relevant.