How to Suppress Women's Writing

Accounting in the organisation and life of a religious institution: The Monastery ofSanta Anain the eighteenth century

“…From the analysis of the primary sources, it seems that religious women were also aware of the cost/ opportunity of certain properties: whenever the Monastery had lands which were not leased for many years, it was a common choice to sell them, placing the money and earning interests (see ADB, Livro dos Caseiros e Pão Comprado, Cota 248; ADB, Livro de Receita e Despesa, Cota 69). These findings support a further reverse narrative on 'restraint', which contradicts the argument of Russ (2015) and Howe ( 2016) on women's access to education.…”

“…O'Brien (2008) analyses the appeal of Zaya's Spanish novellas in the sixteenth century, pointing out that the heroines' only route to physical safety and fulfilment is via the convent. By recalling the work of Russ (2015), Howe (2016) establishes a further aspect of women's 'restraint' in the lack of access to education. This derives from a Renaissance notion that women's speech, whether oral or written, places them in the public sphere where men's gaze upon them threatens their sexual purity.…”

To(o) Queer the Analyst: Lesbiana, Junguiana and Sudamericana. Towards Woven Onto‐Epistemologies1

“…This violent politic of ignorance is noted by authors like Ursula K. Le Guin when she speaks about how women are erased from history and bibliography by mechanisms of “denigration, omission and exception” (Le Guin & Naimon, 2018, p. 92) and after dead quickly replaced by men and finally forgotten. In the same tune, Donna Haraway, in the splendid documentary Story Telling for Earthly Survival (Terranova, 2017), brings our attention to Johana Russ's (1983/2018) book How to Suppress Women's Writing where the author explores multiple mechanisms to erase women from literature. I wonder if this can be traced in Jungian bibliography, and, in that case, what would be the percentage of women that are read in our training programmes, seminars, etc.?…”

Gender and Race in the Modernist Middlebrow: Louise Faure-Favier's Blanche et Noir

“…Deploying Bourdieu, Holmes demonstrates how high comes to be associated with "masculine" concepts of culture, intellect, and emotional sobriety, while low becomes a byword for popular "feminized" forms of culture: instinctive, bodily, and sentimental; what ensues is the inevitable "relegation of women's writing to lowbrow status on the grounds that it deals with the domestic and the emotional," further compounded by a form of structural discrimination through "the rejection of immersive storytelling as a legitimate literary goal" (9). These explicit denunciations of the pernicious forces which have conspired to silence French women writers are reminiscent of How to Suppress Women's Writing by the feminist critic Joanna Russ (1983), a sarcastic, loaded, and scathing dissection of the strategies employed to discredit female efforts to create.…”