Erica Jong on ghettoization of American women writers

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6431248.html

Some very good points.

If a man had written "Fear of Flying" it would have been an instant classic in the vein of DH Lawrence. A woman wrote it, so it was smut - and could you BELIEVE that the wife cheated and no one killed her off? Yeah, still living in the 19th century here. Madame Bovary must die!