How to Suppress Women's Writing
| Elisa Kay Sparks How to Suppress Women's Writing Fall 2003 --------------------------------------- Inspired by Joanna Russ's book of the same title, this print lists some of the strategies used to belittle and de-legitimaze women's writing. I paired particular strategies with specific writers, building towards the final irony of saying women are only succeeding because they are women, when for centuries that identity has been reason for ignoring them. The background of the print is a silkscreen made up of signatures and writing samples from women writers; the actual list of strategies is also a silkscreen, printed on translucent mullberry and glued over the background. The Image of Virginia Woolf is a woodcut, with text and her signature silkscreened over it. |
