Sentences with phrase «books by female authors»

Why do so few books by female authors get reviewed in major publications?

If you've followed my reviews for any length of time, you may have noticed (consciously or subconsciously) that I mostly review books by female authors.

I've recently reviewed books by female authors with female protagonists.

Books by female authors published by «traditional» (i.e. mainstream) publishers were found to command 45 % of the price of male authors» on average.

They are passionate about publishing great books and in 2018 are participating in a year of publishing women, during which they will publish solely books by female authors.

I have read that male authors» books get reviewed by prestigious publications (e.g., NYT Books, etc.) more than books by female authors.

But I have noticed this is less likely to happen in a book by a female author — it's as though women are more likely to focus on character and emotion.

At lunch with a friend who wants to write, she mentioned a recently published book by a female author.

Not exact matches

She is the author the book, Revising Flannery O'Connor: Southern Literary Culture and the Problem of Female Authorship, a project that was one of the first recipients of the National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant, and of the white paper commissioned by the International Cesarean Awareness Network, «Protecting and Enforcing the Rights of Women Seeking Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC): A Primer.»

She is the best - selling author of the book The Female Body Breakthrough, published by Rodale in November 2009.

Finally, if you want to understand more about how where you are at in your menstrual cycle changes the way that you feel and perform during exercise, I recommend reading book «Running for Women» by author Jason Karp, who is also interviewed in this Endurance Planet episode on female athlete fueling.

The tone of the story isn't surprising, given that it is adapted from the best - selling book from 2006 by Stephanie Meyer, author of the «Twilight» series, and whose audience is generally the young female set.

Apparently, you can add being screwed out of equal pay for authoring a frigging book to the list: researchers at Queens College have discovered that books written by female authors are, on average, sold for just over 50 % less than those written by a dude.

The study's authors, Dana Beth Weinberg and Adam Kapelner, a sociologist and mathematician, respectively, found that even when you looked at book genres that are dominated by female authors, the percentages only go up by an average of 9 % — so, even if hardly any men are writing, say, romance novels, the women who are writing them are still getting screwed out of equal pay.

At the Sydney Review of Books, 64 % of reviews were of books by male authors and 36 % female authors, while 59 % of its reviewers were male and 41 % feBooks, 64 % of reviews were of books by male authors and 36 % female authors, while 59 % of its reviewers were male and 41 % febooks by male authors and 36 % female authors, while 59 % of its reviewers were male and 41 % female.

At the Saturday Paper, which publishes reviews under pseudonymous initials, 63 % of reviews were of books by male authors and 37 % female authors.

Let's see if she continues the trend started by Doris and Susan before her, proving that in this digital day and age of social media marketing and online book promotion, female authors are not to be trifled with.

At Harper's, there were 27 male book reviewers and six female; about 69 percent of the books reviewed were by male authors.

In the case when two authors had won the same prize - in different years - the book written by the female cost less than that written by the male.

From wildly adventurous travel memoirs to the story of a traveling circus that pulsates with real magic, these books by inspiring female authors will sweep your imagination away to far - off places.

Notably, the entire list of the top 10 most popular fiction books on Kindle star female protagonists, and nine of the 10 books were written by female authors.

I'm happy to say that readers of all persuasions can now find great books by great female authors in the field.

Earlier this year I answered a post on the numbers of new releases from publishers divided by sex, and looking at «newness» Back then the traditional publishers were skewed marginally female, and if you took out the long established authors and just did the 3 book or less than 10 years in publishing — very skewed to female.

Owned and run by a female of African - American descent, this company is dedicated to printing books by black, women and LGBT authors.

Globe - spanning settings, 19th century heroines and the complexities of motherhood are some of the most prominent themes in the books selected for the new W H Smith Fresh Talent promotion, with almost half the titles released by independent publishers and most of the books written by female authors.

In fact, these numbers we found show that the magazines are reviewing female authors in something close to the proportion of books by women published each year.

(Since my lack of exposure to female authors was brought to my attention, I have made an attempt to level out the reading field - currently, of the last 20 books I have read, 6 of them were written by females.)

A couple new dog books featured in The New York Times today — Afterglow (by Eileen Myles) and Fetch: How A Bad Dog Brought Me Home (Nicole J. Georges)-- showcase how these two female authors» respective dogs not only made them better artists, but better people as well!

«We don't actually see the gender of the customer but... the writing itself is aimed at women, and it's written mostly by female authors who are writing for women,» said Ferris, of Accent Press which also publishes thrillers and cook books.

The exhibit title is inspired by the book, «My Secret Garden», published in 1973 by sex positive feminist author Nancy Friday who was instrumental in addressing taboos revolving around female sexuality in the early 70s and an important figure of the feminist sexual liberation movement.

The exhibit title is inspired by the book, «My Secret Garden», published in 1973 by sex positive feminist author Nancy Friday who was instrumental in addressing taboos revolving around female sexuality in the early 70s, and was an important figure of the feminist sexual liberation movement.

From bad sexist jokes to the covers of books written by female authors, from rockin» out naked biker chicks to Kate Moss, from a rephotographed Untitled Film Still to penny - novel nurses — these are Richard Prince's Women.

The book, group - authored by the artist collective Bernadette Corporation, tells a rags - to - riches story about a young female museum guard - turned - model.