Tag: Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
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Are women-only book prizes necessary?
Maybe for a century or more to come, we’ll continue to need cultural spaces in which “women’s writing” is protected and encouraged to flourish as something separate from “men’s.” But that same small part of me fears that the gated-off arena can too easily become a prison. There’s something ironic, and a little depressing, in…
Shannon Turlington 