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T ime was when we knew where we were with books. Big, important men wrote big, important masterworks about science, politics and history that, if enough people bought them, would swiftly be absorbed into the canon. These books would invariably come swathed in frou-frou pastel-hued jackets with swirly writing lest people — OK, men — mistake them for works to be taken seriously. Lately, however, a wave of women have emerged to disrupt the male-dominated status quo. For these writers, success arrives in spite of a publishing industry that frequently lionises male authors while overlooking, sidelining or actively denigrating women.

A literature contributes to the construction of gender. Los libros, de los que estudiamos tanto el texto como las ilustraciones, se consideran "individuos" encuestados. Brugeilles C, Cromer I.