Reviewing the Reviews: A Woman's Place on the Book Page

20 per cent 28 publications Andrea Dworkin Ann Treneman Barbara Burford bias towards women blurb book pages book review pages book selection books by women books written booksellers bookshops British National Bibliography Chart City Limits Cosmopolitan Daily Telegraph F n/a Fact and fiction favour women favourite sex Fay Weldon feature female authors feminism feminist Fiction Magazine figures Financial Guardian hardback Higher Education Supplement Housekeeping interest literary dinner party literary editors Literary Review Literary Supplement London Review Mail on Sunday male reviewers Margaret Forster Marxism Today newspapers novels number of reviews Options overall overt bias paperback percentage politics public libraries Punch readers reflect review copies review coverage Review of Books School Librarian sex of author Socialist space Spare Rib Spectator Spiller Statesman Sunday papers survey Woman and Home women and fiction women authors women reviewers women writers women's books women's fiction women's magazines women's titles Zoë Fairbairns