Deborah Copaken Kogan and the “Patriarchal Literary Establishment” | Clarissa's Blog
She was following the pattern of eat, love, pray, or whatever the book was called. The books that become dominant in the mainstream have to do with relationships and family, as Mike recently noticed. They're ideally warm and not too threatening. Female 'hysteria' ought not to be threatening, as it is enshrined in patriarchal systems and indicative of a reassuring essential nature.
It ought to have produced for her a winning formula then. What went wrong?
She was following the pattern of eat, love, pray, or whatever the book was called. The books that become dominant in the mainstream have to do with relationships and family, as Mike recently noticed. They're ideally warm and not too threatening. Female 'hysteria' ought not to be threatening, as it is enshrined in patriarchal systems and indicative of a reassuring essential nature.
It ought to have produced for her a winning formula then. What went wrong?
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