In another heartbreaking piece of news from the libraries front line, the Women’s Library and Trade Union Congress Library in London are under threat. Both are currently housed by London Metropolitan University, which has announced that it can no longer afford to keep the collections open.…
Are publishers inadvertently reinforcing an imbalance of acceptance given to books written by men compared to those written by women? Author Meg Wolitzer in a New York Times story, asks depressingly familiar questions about the perception of female writers. When the VIDA survey results were announced last…
A marriage advice book, entitled A Gift for Muslim Couple by Maulavi Ashraf Ali Thanvi, is creating an uproar in Canada. For sale at Islamic Books and Souvenirs in Toronto, the book includes advice on the ways that a Muslim husband can beat and intimidate his…
Last week, the annual VIDA count revealed the continuing gender bias in US journalism and literary criticism. This topic’s attracted significant attention this past year, thanks in large part to bestselling author Jennifer Weiner‘s public commentary, but the results reveal that the situation remains as bleak…
The internet is atwitter over the findings of the newest VIDA survey, which looked at the representation of “Women In Literary Arts” and found, once again, that things are far from equal at the most prestigious magazines, especially at outlets like Harper’s, The Atlantic, The…
The quarrel broke out in summer 2010, has just been reignited, and, unresolved, will no doubt rear its head again. Jennifer Weiner, alongside other women novelists including Jodi Picoult, has drawn attention to the paucity of women reviewers and reviews of books by women in…
Word Up, the pop-up volunteer-run bookstore in Washington Heights, might be a more permanent fixture in the neighborhood if the shop’s creators are able to negotiate a new agreement with the landlord. Veronica Liu, an editor at Seven Stories Press, told DNA info that “This…
Remember the surprisingly unsurprising news from the New York Times way back in January, that fewer than 15% of Wikipedia contributors were women? Then there was the even more depressing report from the Wikimedia Foundation itself, which confirmed that the figure for editors was less…
The UK Telegraph reports on a new study showing older women who own e-book readers are more willing to engage in e-book piracy than music piracy, “One in eight women over 35 who own such [e-reading] devices admit to having downloaded an unlicensed e-book. That…
Yesterday, Yoani Sánchez, author of Havana Real: One Woman Fights to Tell the Truth About Cuba Today, spoke to Carol Hills of PRI/BBC’s The World for this interview. In the interview, Yoani explains how blogging became a form of release for her, that her intention…
