Attic Book Club Discusses How to Suppress Women's Writing
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Following Zarah the Windseeker and continuing our theme of alternating between a lighter, more uplifting read and something somewhat more "serious" or tragic, September's book is How to Suppress Women's Writing, by Joanna Russ.
SUMMARY: Written in the style of a sarcastic and irreverent guidebook, it explains how women are prevented from producing written works, not given credit when such works are produced, or dismissed or belittled for those contributions they are acknowledged to have made.
(Goodreads link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1047343.How_to_Suppress_Women_s_Writing )
Attic Reads is intended to be a fairly relaxed chance to discuss books through a feminist lens, featuring a mix of newer works of fiction and non-fiction and parts of older feminist "canon" as well as some lighter YA featuring female characters and authors.