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Tuesday, August 26, 2003

AND they wrote like girls...

in case you were wondering, the concept behind gender genie -- that female writing is in essence quantifiably different from male writing-- isn't a new one. I don't have the time or energy "write" now to engage the qualitative questions that such quantitative differences might imply, but alas, those too are questions for the ages.

todays texts all are about epistolarity: here's a snippet from the introduction to Elizabeth Goldsmith's collection of essays Writing the Female Voice

“To publish a woman’s letters, even if the purpose of publication was to praise female epistolary style, was in some way to violate her personal integrity. Published epistolary writing by women was therefore rarely signed, and was often in fact produced by male writers “imitating” the way women wrote. Publishers were quick to recognize the easy marketability of a woman’s private correspondence, and ultimately of a literary genre based on women’s letters. By the eighteenth century the practice of male authors appropriating the female voice in their fictions had become a popular and innovative narrative ploy. "
(Goldsmith vii)

score one for synchronicity!
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