Women's writing

Women's writing

Women's writing may refer to the general study of women writers or women's literature as a genre in general, or in particular languages. See:

* Women's writing in English
* Écriture féminine

* List of women writers
* List of women rhetoricians
* List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)
* List of early-modern women poets (UK)
* List of women novelists before Jane Austen
* Women science fiction authors

* List of biographical dictionaries of women writers
* List of writers in Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
* List of women in Bloomsbury Guide to Women's Literature

* List of organizations for women writers

"Women's literature" may be used to mean literature targeted at women, regardless of the gender of the writer:
* Chick lit
* Girls' series - children's mystery series, such as Nancy Drew, targeted to girls and young women


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