The Debate about Women's Fiction

Here's a really smart article called "Women's fiction: All misery and martinis?" from the March 19, 2010, edition of Salon.com. It directly discusses the issues at hand in the use of "women's fiction" and "chick lit" as descriptive terms, and it also speaks to the perception that contemporary women's fiction is polarized into the extremes of either "misery lit" or superficial "chick-lit". The article also raises the wider question about the discrepancies inherent in defining what men read vs. what women read. It's worth a look:


Women's fiction: All misery and martinis?