{"id":10213,"date":"2013-03-05T08:01:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/?p=10213"},"modified":"2013-03-05T08:01:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T08:01:56","slug":"ou-sont-les-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2013\/03\/05\/ou-sont-les-femmes\/","title":{"rendered":"O\u00f9 sont les femmes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidaweb.org\/vida-count-2012-mic-check-redux\">The VIDA stats are out. Naturlich they are grim.<\/a> Here are the choices:<\/p>\n<p>1) Boil your head and despair<\/p>\n<p>2) Figure out who in The Atlantic precisely is so unable to locate more than 4 women reviewers &amp; Harpers who can only locate 3 &amp; have a whip round to get them a GPS.<\/p>\n<p>or wonder whether readers should vote on the matter that this magazine refuses to afford women writers any critical authority on literature by, well, unsubscribing.<\/p>\n<p>3) Remember that print is a dying medium, the stats are, I assume, based on print and pay no heed to the blogs this publications operate, where perhaps women prevail and are more prolific.<\/p>\n<p>4) Question whether 3) is true and recognize my optimism about these publications blogs is likely blindingly delusional.<\/p>\n<p>5) The obvious option is be ambitious, write more, but this is difficult to resolve in a year where I wrote a novel that was reviewed by NONE of those publications. (Obviously my novel had the company of a great deal of other novels in this regard).<\/p>\n<p>6) Remind myself that the mainstream is the mainstream is the mainstream is the mainstream and unto the mainstream it shall remain. Also literary culture is conservative. But there&#8217;s plenty space outside the mainstream. Acres of space for all sorts of cross polination. It&#8217;s a matter of taking up some of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VIDA stats are out. Naturlich they are grim. Here are the choices: 1) Boil your head and despair 2) Figure out who in The Atlantic precisely is so unable to locate more than 4 women reviewers &amp; Harpers who can only locate 3 &amp; have a whip round to get them a GPS. or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[988,1270],"class_list":["post-10213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","tag-response","tag-vida-count"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}