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Maud Newton: Best-of lists, and prizes
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YES yes YES! LOVE this article in response to the PW "Best" 10 Books of 2009! http://bit.ly/3Mzu8b 6 days ago |
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RT @joankremer: Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub #Women Writers http://bit.ly/17mMjK 7 days ago |
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Also, this rocks: http://bit.ly/1yXIoy 7 days ago |
Best-of lists, and prizes
Maud Newton —
“We have sat here and consistently called books by women small & books by men large, by no quantifiable metric.” (Via.)
A valid complaint ...
Books, Inq. — The Epilogue —
... I think: Same Old Story: Best-Books Lists Snub Women Writers. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
Jury, Meet Peers
The Mumpsimus —
Lizzie Skurnick: "I just want to say," I said as the meeting closed, "that we have sat here and consistently called books by women small and books by men large, by no quantifiable metric, and we are giving awards to books I think are actually kind of amateur and sloppy compared to others, and I think it's disgusting." (I wasn't built for the board room.) "But we can't be doing it because we're sexist," an estimable colleague replied huffily. "After all, we're both men and women here." But that's the problem with sexism. It doesn't happen because ...
Lizzie Skurnick for President
Pickle Me This —
In "Same Old Story", Skurnick writes: "But that's the problem with sexism. It doesn't happen because people -- male or female -- think women suck. It happens for the same reason a sommelier always pours a little more in a man's wine glass (check it!), or that that big, hearty man in the suit seems like he'd be a better manager. It's not that women shouldn't be up for the big awards. It's just that when it comes down to the wire, we just kinda feel like men . . . I don't know . . . deserve them. ...
Girlfight
Justine Larbalestier —
... Certain things1 lately2 have been making me just a tiny bit tetchy and upset so I thought I would work out my feelings by watching Michelle Rodriguez as Diana Guzman in ...
The Busy Person’s Blog Post
Sara Zarr —
... - As a writer and reader of the “small” and “domestic,” I give Lizzie Skurnick a big, fat thank you for her response to the now-infamous woman-free Publishers Weekly Top Ten of 2009. ...
Repressive Anti-Sentimentalism: Best [Male] Writers of 2009
The Valve —
... appreciating and texts that we do not, for myriad reasons, appreciate. There are texts about which we have built large critical apparatuses for justifying as “great”. Perceptions of gender, race, sexuality, class, and other broad social categories mix with our experiences as readers, our educations, etc., to produce the judgments we make.” But the problem isn’t that the question of what we like is completely mixed up with who we are. The problem isn’t even that, as Lizzie Skurnick puts it , “the publishing industry is no better at ignoring gender than your average ...
second sex takes second place? -- Abigail Deutsch
Harriet: The Blog —
... I haven’t noticed anyone puzzling over that question, but Lizzie Skurnick of Politics Daily writes a cutting, entertaining meditation on the subject, and Bookslut’s Jessa Crispin offers the usual biting sound byte: ...
