How to Suppress Women's Writing
Autor Joanna Russ Introducere de Jessa Crispinen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 apr 2018
“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
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781477316252
ISBN-10: 1477316256
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 1477316256
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Hugo and Nebula award–winning author Joanna Russ (1937–2011) was a widely respected feminist science fiction writer best known for the novel The Female Man. She was also a professor of English at the University of Washington who published several collections of essays and literary criticism.
Jessa Crispin is the founder and editor of Bookslut.com. She is the author of The Dead Ladies Project and Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.
Jessa Crispin is the founder and editor of Bookslut.com. She is the author of The Dead Ladies Project and Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.
Cuprins
- Foreword by Jessa Crispin
- 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
Recenzii
[A] book that, in a just world, would be assigned in every writing, literature, and art class, and handed to every single high school and college graduate…It's one of the most elegant books of feminist criticism I've ever read.
Nearly four decades after she penned it, Joanna Russ’ How to Suppress Women’s Writing has just been reissued, and it’s as timely as ever. That’s the problem. The book is exhausting and wry and depressing, a deeply sourced journey through the misogyny of the making of the English literary canon. . . . I don’t need this book. Your son needs this book. Your uncle needs it. Your bartender needs it. Maybe you need it.
If you haven’t read this little book, you should seek it out: it’s still horribly relevant...Russ showed me we can’t sensibly talk about what is most important or of the highest quality without first asking who gets to decide, and based on what criteria?
Brilliant and scathing.
Thankfully, with the new release of [the new edition], Russ’ writing is a little less suppressed today than it has ever been. And the anger that sometimes propelled her work has a chance to continue to foment change.
Reading it changed the way I approached criticism and the act of reading itself.
Despite how much there is to be angry about, How to Suppress Women's Writing is shot through with hope. . . Likely it won't be remembered long enough or taken seriously enough, but to read this book is to admire this buried tradition, and realize how much there is to be discovered — and how there's no time like the present to look at the marginalized writers you might be missing. "Only on the margins does growth occur," Russ promises, like the guide in a story telling you how to defeat the dragon. Get angry; then get a reading list.
A must-read feminist classic...this book is a lovely introduction to Russ’ acerbic writing style, and is a scathing commentary on how patriarchal and other systemic forces have conspired to silence women’s voices, not just in fiction but in other media as well.
Russ is modeling a willingness to challenge our worldviews and sit with the discomfort that on some occasions we could very well be the suppressors. Here, she is beginning to imagine what a solution could look like, and she is inviting us to imagine with her. This book is certainly appropriate for students and scholars of feminist history and literature. Scholarly publishing professionals may also find it particularly useful as an interrogative tool as well as an opportunity to reflect on our own practices and begin to envision how we can do better.
Descriere
A landmark feminist critique with a new foreword by Jessa Crispin, author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, this provocative book surveys the forces that work against women who dare to write.