[lbo-talk] Women are still a closed book to men

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 1 10:39:58 PDT 2005


Yeah, just finished Clifton Haylin's bio of Dylan, Behind The Shades Revisted, excellent book for fanatics like myself, but even more disillusioning than you could easily imagine about his treatment of women, never mind his grasp of women authors. He's absolutely no better towards them than he is in his songs. At least he's not physically abusive, some probably insubstantial allegations during divorce proceedings aside. One lesson I drew: fame of the sort that was visited on Dylan is not something I'd wish one anyone. Did him no good at all.

--- 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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