Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Recent Salon article on women's fiction: Women's Fiction: All Misery and Martinis?

http://www.salon.com/life/broadsheet/2010/03/19/womens_fiction

"As Rebecca Traister wrote in 2005, 'Beating on 'women's' fiction -- and dismissing certain literary trends as feminine rubbish -- has a history as long as the popular fiction itself.'"

The article also goes on to define a big issue with women's fiction, which is that it's a very vague definition, and no one seems to know who gets to decide (publishers? readers? authors?) what ends up tagged as WF or not.

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