Interesting blog by Mark Samuels here:
http://marksamuels.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/amour-dure-machen-misogyny/
Amour Dure, Machen & Misogyny
My view on Gender politics in Literature is the same as Barbara Roden’s here:
http://www.knibbworld.com/campbell-cgi/discus/show.cgi?tpc=1&post=70947#POST70947
At my most extreme, however, I’d say there would be no potential hang-ups about Gender, Political Correctness, personality, Nepotism, Personal Grievances, Self-Promotion etc if all writers as a matter of course had their work published *initially* in a nemonymous fashion, then with late-labelling with their by-lines *after* the reviews etc 🙂
Last Balcony: Essex Serpents and Pier’s Echo 