{"id":1326,"date":"2008-11-10T01:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1326"},"modified":"2008-11-10T01:40:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T06:40:51","slug":"um-women-dont-write-big-idea-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/11\/10\/um-women-dont-write-big-idea-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Um, Women Don&#8217;t Write Big Idea Books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/tbn0.google.com\/images?q=tbn:ss0z6TU6C7--oM:http:\/\/www.wales.nhs.uk\/sites3\/documents\/582\/ideas.jpg' alt='' class='left' \/>With all the pre-election hoopla over here across the pond, I seem to have missed this gem by Alison Flood at <em>The Guardian<\/em> the other week, when she asked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2008\/oct\/27\/freakonomics-women-big-ideas\">&#8220;Where are the books by women with big ideas?&#8221;<\/a>.  &#8220;Books like Freakonomics, defining significant cultural or economic trends with a punchy title, never seem to be produced by women. But why?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes Julia Cheiffetz, blogging at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.26thstory.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/what-the-hell-m.html\">publishing website HarperStudio<\/a>, as saying, <strong>&#8220;It is hard to know whether women are better at telling stories than propagating ideas (I&#8217;m thinking of Susan Orlean, Mary Roach, Karen Abbott), or whether the intellectual audacity required to sell our hypotheses about the world simply isn&#8217;t in our genetic makeup.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ok, righto.  Have at it, Penners.  And for a nice critique, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/feminocracy.wordpress.com\/2008\/11\/05\/women-and-big-ideas\/\">Feminocracy<\/a>, who credits Flood for her observation that disparities in publishing have something to do with the gender disparities in both economics specifically and academia in general.  But still&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the pre-election hoopla over here across the pond, I seem to have missed this gem by Alison Flood at The Guardian the other week, when she asked &#8220;Where are the books by women with big ideas?&#8221;. &#8220;Books like Freakonomics, defining significant cultural or economic trends with a punchy title, never seem to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21941],"class_list":["post-1326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-writing-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}