Adam Ash

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Bookplanet: prizes for women only debated

Interesting NY Times article about literary awards for women only, of which there are quite a few. Sample quote about whether they're OK:
'Anne Fine, a British novelist, is still unpersuaded. "I do think the Orange Prize has created a division, an artificial barrier, when before there was only an awful inequality. But now you do hear people unashamedly talking about women's writing in a way you would never hear them talking about women's architecture or women's music." '
WHERE DO YOU stand? Why not prizes for women only? Women may be treated equally by publishers, but award-givers still favor men, I think.

1 Comments:

At 6/23/2005 8:43 AM, Blogger Kel-Bell said...

I dunno,
I think that a woman's mind is equally as interesting as a mans, therefore, any form of affirmative action for chick lit seems kind of condicending.

On the other hand, women authors do not get the same readership as male authors, and many female writers have found success only after adopting a male literary persona.

I guess the problem is simply that people do not value the thoughts of women as much as they value the thoughts of men.

(Sorry...Im back on that patriarchy thing again.)

Someone, SLAP ME, Quick!

 

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