How to suppress women's writing
Book • 1983
Joanna Russ's 'How to Suppress Women's Writing' examines the systematic tactics—ranging from criticism and anthologizing to social and institutional pressures—used to marginalize women's literature.
Russ uses a mixture of wit and scholarship to categorize the many ways women's creative work is dismissed, forgotten, or appropriated.
The book acts both as a handbook of literary erasure and a call to recognize and resist those practices.
It has been influential in feminist literary criticism and is frequently cited in discussions of gendered patterns of cultural forgetting.
Russ's analysis helped later scholars and activists identify similar suppression tactics across other fields.
Russ uses a mixture of wit and scholarship to categorize the many ways women's creative work is dismissed, forgotten, or appropriated.
The book acts both as a handbook of literary erasure and a call to recognize and resist those practices.
It has been influential in feminist literary criticism and is frequently cited in discussions of gendered patterns of cultural forgetting.
Russ's analysis helped later scholars and activists identify similar suppression tactics across other fields.
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Mentioned by Elsa Holland and Donna Dingwall as a seminal work summarizing ways women's writing is diminished and as referenced by Margaret Rossiter.
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