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on 29 June 2004 (#3648328)

The Female Author Project

A few months ago I read Inga Muscio's Cunt: A declaration of Independence. In it she talked of a professor who encouraged her to spend a year reading only female authors. Inga did, but being Inga she took it further, reading only female authors for two years, and expanding this female only into the other arts as well. She then encouraged her readers to do the same.

I just recently graduated from college and am taking a year off before I start my grad school. During that time I will be only reading female authors.

I've started this community as a place to discuss female authors. Anyone can join, even if they are not limiting their reading list by gender. To post names of female authors you enjoy, book reviews (spoilers cut please) of female-authored books, ask questions about female authors, etc, etc. Please feel free to post of on female artists from other genres as well.

Scope of the authors is not limited. We will discuss everyone from Christine de Pizan (who's essay title inspired the name of the community), to Virginia Woolfe, to Anne Sexton, to Judy Blume, to JK Rowling, whomever you can think of.

I hope this becomes a place where people can discover the art of women that they might have overlooked before.

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