Sentences with phrase «few women writers»

«I think my favorite was Pan Chao because I thought it was awesome how she was one of the very few women writers in China.

The Atlantic piece ends by reminding us that «the absence of women film critics has been in the news recently thanks to Meryl Streep, who questioned in October how having so few women writers might affect the reception of female - centric films,» while noting that «There are no headlines recently about the representation of other races or sexual orientations, though they deserve many of their own.»

Not exact matches

This gives you plenty of time to learn the ropes, find your voice, and make a few mistakes before readers start disseminating your ideas via links, Twitter, and Facebook... which is an especially good thing for writers like me who like to dabble in controversial topics like evolution, women and the church, Calvinism vs. Arminianism, doubt, politics, and cookie - stuffed cookies.

There are African Americans, Hispanics, women preachers, apocalyptic seers, lobbyists, missiologists, postmodernists, writers, radio preachers, megachurch pastors, a few scholars, and, mirabile dictu, two Catholics: the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum, and the editor - in - chief of First Things, Father Richard John Neuhaus.

More than a few women in Chile, France and elsewhere told her that wives need to boost men's egos and be softer, if not quite submissive — a message American women hear a lot from conservative writers (I'm thinking of you, Suzanne Venker) and that's overwhelmingly upsetting to feminists.

Even fewer of these women, if any at all, have been admitted to the pantheon of «great thinkers» — that class of writer whose work is the focus of worldwide attention and debate.

Dr. Friedman is a contributing writer for a plethora of leading news, health and fitness magazines including U.S News & World Report, Readers Digest, Better Nutrition, AARP Magazine, and Woman's Word, just to name a few.

Not only are women outnumbered as film critics, staff writers, other types of critics, and freelancers, women also review fewer films on average than men.

Writer Kim Fuller (the person responsible for another, rather infamous «girl power» comedy, Spice World) often strains to come up with convincing reasons for the women to stick to their often - failing plan, and while there are more than a few grin - worthy moments, there is a clear dearth of any that induce audible laughs.

Writer - director Holofcenter (Lovely & Amazing, Walking and Talking) continues her fine work making womancentric films with Friends with Money, a few weeks in the travails of four women at a crossroads in their lives, relationships, and careers.

Weiner has a few things straight: she's a commercial rather than a «literary» writer, and female writers of commercial fiction for women are perhaps the least - respected writers in America.

When Joanna Russ, one of the few successful female science - fiction writers, died last year, her obituary in The New York Times referred to her as a writer who helped «deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen — women.»

She has been one of the few women to make her name as a writer in the world of long - form immersion - based narrative.

Recently, fairy tale scholars have re — discovered the enormous body of work produced by women writers associated with the German Romantics: Grisela von Arnim, Sophie Tieck Bernhardi, Karoline von Günderrode, Julie Berger, and Sophie Albrecht, to name just a few.

I'm not denying that there were fewer women published in the 16th, 17th, 18th, and even 19th centuries, nor that many of the writers and books he chose are good.

But here are a few that caught my eye: Stefanie Cohen explains «Why Women Writers Still Take Men's Names» (and occasionally vice versa.)

Today, in recognition of February's annual Women in Horror Month, we get acquainted with a few up - and - coming writers of urban fantasy and paranormal romance.