--- Liza Featherstone <lfeather at panix.com> wrote:
>
> My favorite commentary on this subject, from Bob
> Dylan's "Time out of Mind":
>
> She said, You don't read women authors, do you/
> I said, You're way wrong/
> She said, Which ones have you read then/
> I said, I've read Erica Jong.
>
>
> -- Liza
>
>
>
>
>
> >> Women are still a closed book to men
> >> Research shows men mainly read works by other men
> >>
> >> David Smith
> >> Sunday May 29, 2005
> >>
> >> Observer
> >>
> >> Men have finally realised what they are missing,
> but they still aren't
> >> all
> >> that keen to do anything about it.
> >> This is the conclusion of a study into sex
> differences in reading
> >> habits,
> >> which found that, while women read the works of
> both sexes, men stick to
> >> books written by men. And the boys can no longer
> use ignorance as an
> >> excuse.
> >>
> >> 'Men clearly now know that there are some great
> books by women - such as
> >> Andrea Levy's Small Island - they really ought to
> have read and ought to
> >> consider "great" (or at least good) writing,' the
> report said. 'They
> >> recognise the titles and they've read the
> reviews. They may even have
> >> bought, or been given the books, and start
> reading them. But they
> >> probably
> >> won't finish them.'
> >
> > I wonder how this shakes out in non-fiction? I
> read maybe one or two
> > fiction books a year everything else is
> non-fiction. Most non-fiction
> > books in the sciences and about economics or
> politics are written by
> > men.
> >
> > Are there any differences in writing style by
> gender? When I picked up
> > "Longitude" a few years back I kept thinking it
> was oddly written. I
> > enjoyed it but it just didn't seem to read the way
> I expected it to. My SO
> > suggested it was because it was written by a woman
> and not a man. I
> > hadn't even noticed the gender of the author when
> I picked it up.
> >
> > I realize every author has their own style but do
> men and women write
> > differently? Do culture and society construct
> language differences by
> > gender that manifest themselves in writing?
> >
> > John Thornton
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