New Edition
Ooooh! Look what was just delivered to my place – a beautiful new edition of Elizabeth Macarthur. Just quietly, I think I like this cover better. I fear the previous one was in danger of being dismissed as ‘a woman’s book’. That’s not a joke. I took my daughter into a bookshop recently, one of…
Sex and writing
A US writer was tired of receiving rejection slips for her unpublished novel. So she sent it out under a male name. No prizes for guessing the depressing result – the responses she was offered as a man were far more encouraging than those she received as a woman.
The Wife Drought by Annabel Crabb
We’ve all seen the alarming stats about women in the workplace. The higher the workplace position, the fewer women. But why? And what to do about it? Annabel Crabb thinks she has the answer. And I think she’s right. I’ve read lots of feminist critiques of the workplace, and I’ve enjoyed most of them. I’ve…
The Stella Count – Women and Book Reviews
Sad fact: The majority of book reviews in Australian publications are still of books by male writers. The Stella Prize, in conjunction with Books+Publishing, has just released the statistics for the 2013 Stella Count, tracking the relative number of reviews of books by women as compared with books by men in most of the major…