A landmark feminist critique with a new foreword by Jessa Crispin, author of Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto, this provocative book surveys the forces that work against women who dare to write.

• Foreword by Jessa Crispin
• Prologue
• 1. Prohibitions
• 2. Bad Faith
• 3. Denial of Agency
• 4. Pollution of Agency
• 5. The Double Standard of Content
• 6. False Categorizing
• 7. Isolation
• 8. Anomalousness
• 9. Lack of Models
• 10. Responses
• 11. Aesthetics
• Epilogue
• Author’s Note
• Afterword
• Notes
• Index

By Joanna Russ; foreword by Jessa Crispin