If The Past Was So Sexist, Why Were There Fewer Bestselling Women Novelists In The Late 20th Century Than In The Early 20th Century?

By Steve Sailer

06/23/2021

From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:

Distaff Writers
Steve Sailer

June 23, 2021

Distaff Writers

It’s widely assumed today that, due to systemic sexism, women were so culturally oppressed until roughly last week that, of course, there were few famous women writers.

In truth, however, women have made up a sizable fraction of professional novelists for centuries.

But why then aren’t these old-time women writers more renowned today among anybody not trying to get tenure?

Why did women novelists fall in popularity from the 1940s through the 1970s? There are no doubt many reasons, but an important one that has been almost completely forgotten because it doesn’t fit into Woke mythologizing of the past is that the bohemian artists who would become the cultural elite of mid-century America turned sharply against bluestocking feminism after its year of triumph, 1919, when women were given both Suffrage and Prohibition.

Read the whole thing there.

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