How to Suppress Women from Writing

◆Hugo Award-winning, Nebula Award-winning feminist science fiction novelist Joanna Russ

◆The obstacles encountered by all women in writing

◆Debunking the tradition of misogyny in the literary world in one fell swoop

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【brief introduction】

This book is the famous literary theory of feminist Joanna Russ. In the book, she imitates the usual tone in literary criticism and writes a "Guide to Suppressing Women's Writing" in an ironic way, sharply pointing out and criticizing The societal resistance imposed on female authors that prevents, belittles and ignores women's writing. At the same time, this is a literary history outside the mainstream vision. It recollects those works that are considered unworthy of understanding, and names the famous authors in the history of literature: Dickens, Hemingway, Woolf, Thorn Tagg, the Bronte sisters—some have degraded women's writing, some are demeaned, some are both.

This is an angry and sharp feminist literary criticism, which directly points to the structural violence faced by women's writing, and leads readers to re-understand those demeaned voices.

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The words are sharp and wonderful!

-- "New York Review of Books"

If you haven't read this little book, you really should check it out: it's still surprisingly up-to-date... Russ tells us that without first asking who is judging, and by what criteria , we cannot intelligently discuss which works are the most important and of the highest quality. We cannot understand true literary value without first thinking about what values ​​govern literature, and how literary norms have been shaped over the centuries.

--"Guardian"

This is a quirky work that defies convention and breaks stereotypes. The book lists all the wrong attitudes and concepts that lead us to ignore or even discard women's works of art. Russ defines these patterns so clearly and succinctly, it is like holding a mirror in front of us, making us re-examine ourselves.

—Annette Claudner, American literary critic

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【Editor's Choice】

◆The feminist manifesto that inspired a generation and the milestone literary criticism. Added an introduction by Jessa Crispin, an American critic and author of I'm No Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto.

◆Classic works worthy of review in the post-MeToo era: Joanna Russ leads readers to regain a buried literary tradition in the book. Her original and reflective words are still powerful when read today. Timeless, even unexpected attention to the present. There has never been a better time to reacquaint forgotten writers and rethink the biased standards by which they were judged.

◆This is an inspirational book dedicated to all marginalized groups, except women, Russ also encourages readers to embrace all "outsiders" who were or remain outside the literary canon—black artists, gay writers, "localist novelist", and so on. Russ sincerely pointed out that "development is possible only in the marginal areas." Turning our attention to all marginalized artists who have been relegated is related to whether we can truly face each other and pay attention to the situation of others.

◆Translated by Zhang Yan, a gold medal translator and professor of Shanghai International Studies University. The text is fluent and beautiful, and restores the sharpness and anger, humor and power of Lars' original works to the greatest extent.

◆After the English version of this book was republished in 2018, the cover immediately aroused widespread attention and discussion on social platforms. The cover of the Chinese version continues the creative thinking of the original version, designed by Zhou Weiwei, a designer who has won the award of "China's Most Beautiful Book" for many times. By listing those hostile clichés, it directly faces the obstacles that women encounter in writing.