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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Is mainstream feminism/social justice authoritarian?
« on: June 21, 2015, 05:23:02 PM »I think it is worth emphasizing that the "Year of Publishing Women" is subtitled "A Provocation". I never read any serious status quo changing manifesto in to that but rather a very clumsy way of generating empathy for the female representation in that world. Not to say that there are not authoritarian feminists but that that particular piece was more rhetorical than earnest.I'll take your point, even if I'm not immediately convinced by it. I'm obviously biased. However, to me, this article reads as very explicit in its intent ('I would argue that is time for everyone, male and female, to sign up to a concerted campaign to redress the inequality.', 'Why not have a Year of Publishing Women: 2018, the centenary of women over the age of 30 getting the vote in the UK, seems appropriate.').
I also find it interesting that the author herself chooses to put "provocation" in quotation marks further down the article: 'Of course, there will be many details to work out, but the basic premise of my “provocation” is that none of the new titles published in that year should be written by men. I’ve been considering literary fiction so far but other groups within fiction – and non-fiction – publishing could gain from signing up too.'
I've got a couple of short stories that I'm tempted to try to get published somewhere so I've been checking out a few literary websites lately. Quite a few of them seem to have some kind of positive discrimination policy in place already, particularly American sites. They vary from an insistance on female protagonists, to requests for submissions from female writers or writers from under represented groups.