Edging Women Out

This book documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part because of changes in the system of publishing and rewarding authors. Drawing on unusual data from the archives of Macmillan and company and an analysis of the lives and accomplishments of authors, Tuchman investigates what fostered men’s success as novelists. Both a sociological study of occupational gender transformation and a historical study of writing and publishing, this book is a rich resource for students of the sociology of culture, literary criticism, and women’s studies.