A Jury of Her Peers
There are days where i wake up late, sit in front of the computer looking pictures in online newspapers, watch and listen to audio slide shows in the NY Times, fire up the RSS feed 2-3 times in a row fishing for something new. It is idling, eating peanut butter pumpernickel toast and drinking jasmine tea! But alas there are times when I come across some great articles and this was one of them!
Why can’t a woman write the Great American Novel? : Female authors hold their own on the bestseller lists, but Elaine Showalter’s provocative new history wonders why they get so little respect.
I always said I would be way smarter if I had a husband that acted like a 1950s wife, and well it seems, that has been the fate of US female writers vs British female writers. Two days ago Naomi Klein said the same thing, basically, she can do what she does because she has a feminist husband, and suggested that we need way more of them in her Warwick Prize speech.
Via: Polymeme
