Yet both their pieces contained an irksome assumption: Female authors don’t want “women stuff” on their book covers. All that girly junk is just a means of marginalization. “Look at some ...

Female authors have called for an end to sexist book covers which promote their novels as 'girly' in order to boost sales regardless of the plot. British children's author Dame Jacqueline Wilson ...

Addressing gender stereotyping in books. A COUPLE of weeks ago I wrote about girls liking princesses and princess books, and was accused by an acquaintance of pandering to gender stereotypes.

Pink and glittery 'chick lit' book covers are putting men off from reading novels written by women, a best-selling author has said. Jojo Moyes, the author of the critically acclaimed novel Me ...

With gendered book covers she said, “literary women are often dragged into the field of the very kind of fiction against which literary [fiction] is defined.” Women of letters have been ...

How Tarted-Up Book Covers Belittle Women’s Fiction The publishing industry's packaging of women's literary fiction in stereotypically girly covers makes great books seem trashy. Aptly titled new ...

Among the many challenges book cover designers face is trying to represent ... it’s cartoonish but not in an overly girly way. (Hear that, male readers?) Or consider the hardcover version ...