I’m not unsympathetic to the arguments recently raised by Meg Wolitzer in The New York Times Book Review, and by my colleague Ruth Franklin, regarding the marginalization of “women’s fiction.” ...

Ditch sexist pink book covers as they are putting boys off ‘gritty’ books, says leading authors. By EMILY DAVIES. Published: 20:30 EDT, 10 May 2013 | Updated: 07:51 EDT, 11 May 2013 ...

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. advertisement ...

Author Jojo Moyes says girly book covers stop men from reading women authors Moyes, author of Me Before You, says covers should be more gender-neutral The 48-year-old ex journalist says covers ...

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. In ...

Back Bay Books. The patient zero of flat women might be Bernadette, the heroine and cover star of Where’d You Go, Bernadette, by Maria Semple, from 2012. On that cover, a woman’s face floats ...

With book covers that look like Barbie doll boxes, “literary women are often dragged into the field of the very kind of fiction against which literary [fiction] is defined.” ...

I’m a sucker for girly books. I go for the pretty covers, the women writers — the more southern the better. I’m not proud of this fact. I was an English major, after all, and I consider ...