R288. Thirty-Five Years After How to Suppress Women’s Writing

A106, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Thursday, March 28, 2019
4:30 pm to 5:45 pm

In 1983, the University of Texas Press published Joanna Russ’s landmark How to Suppress Women’s Writing, which enumerated and elaborated on the many ways women writers had been kept out of the canon. Almost forty years later, it remains distressingly true that, as Russ wrote, “If certain people are not supposed to have the ability to produce ‘great’ literature, and if this supposition is one of the means used to keep such people in their place, the ideal situation… is one in which such people is one in which such people are prevented from producing any literature at all."

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Moderator:

Ann Garvin, PD. is the author of the USA Today Bestselling book I Like You Just Fine When You're Not Around, The Dog Year, and On Maggie's Watch. Professor at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater and Miami University MFA, she coruns The 5th Semester, and she is the founder of the Tall Poppy Writers.

Karen Karbo is the author of fifteen award-winning novels and works of nonfiction. Her novels have all been named NY Times Notable Books. She is an NEA Fellow in Fiction and winner of an Oregon Book Award for her memoir, The Stuff of Life. Her most recent book is In Praise of Difficult Women.

Reema Zaman is an award-winning author, speaker, actress, and Oregon Literary Arts' Writer of Color Fellow. Her debut memoir, I Am Yours, explores the difficulties, danger, and ultimately, necessity of women owning and using their voice. As a speaker, she speaks on the power we humans hold within.

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R288. Thirty-Five Years After How to Suppress Women’s Writing

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