Roundup: Women’s Voices
As we launch a new blog format for the new year, we’re also looking back at all the great posts since the blog started in 2009. Our roundups explore the archives and gather past posts around a certain theme to help you jump-start your week. This week we have posts on women’s voices in writing.
We are no strangers to women’s voices here at Ploughshares. Many of our contributors, guest bloggers, staff, and readers are women. Occasionally our guest bloggers turn their attention to how female voices affect writing, Ploughshares, and the literary world. Here are some of their posts:
- Christine Sneed tackles gender roles in humor with “Sh*t My Mom Says: Women, Men, and Humor.”
- On the topic of mothers, Rachel Kadish explores the absence of mothers in children’s movies and books.
- Our male guest bloggers have weighed in on the topic of female voices as well. Peter Kline confronts “Sexism” in its many literary forms.
- How does a male writer approach writing a female character? Thomas Lee outlines the challenges he encounters.
- Looking for interviews with women writers? Check out Patricia Caspers’ blog post series “Hearing Voices: Women Versing Life.”
- Hungering for books about or by strong women? Anne Gray Fischer has a selection for you in her “Women in Trouble” series of book reviews.
Image by National Library of Norway.
