women authors
She-penned book creators
Women authors are female writers, typically of books.
The phrase emphasizes gender in a field historically dominated by men, where women were often excluded from publication or forced to use male pseudonyms.
Today the term appears in discussions of literary history, reading lists, or awards: a anthology of women authors, women authors of the Victorian era.
- novelistsWriters of long-form fiction
- chick litBreezy women's fiction genre
- feminist voicesSpeakers for gender equality
- poetsComposers of verse
- confessional poetryPoetry of raw personal revelation
essayists · feminism · female gaze · biographers · pen names · medieval scribes · playwrights · translators · memoirists · bluestockings · literary salons · anthologists · screenwriters · educators · journalists · magical realism · realism · postmodernism
- Women's Empowermentfeminism, girl power, gender equality, female leadership, sisterhood
- women's writingVirginia Woolf, Jane Austen, Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Sylvia Plath
- Women's Readingromance novels, chick lit, feminist literature, book clubs, reading groups
- Feminist Theorypatriarchy, male gaze, intersectionality, female gaze, Virginia Woolf
- author groups
women authorsreaders
Those who peruse text
literary critics · publishers · editors · bibliophiles · audiences
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