Thank you so much for this, Leah! You re-iterate here in detail what you communicated so well in your book— it’s a lifetime of systemic oppression, not one mortal wound, which tries to take down women composers. The “smoking gun” analogy only comes from those who’ve not examined how sexual discrimination is not ONE gun shot wound (which your subjects in QUARTET recover from on multiple occasions & get back to work). A much more accurate analogy is a disease of oppressions which eats at women’s creations over a period of years and decades. Reviewers claiming you didn’t present adequate PROOF of discrimination are in fact PROVING how it still exists by using it against you and your work.
Can’t wait to learn more about your next book! Looking forward to it very much!
Thank you so much for this, Leah! You re-iterate here in detail what you communicated so well in your book— it’s a lifetime of systemic oppression, not one mortal wound, which tries to take down women composers. The “smoking gun” analogy only comes from those who’ve not examined how sexual discrimination is not ONE gun shot wound (which your subjects in QUARTET recover from on multiple occasions & get back to work). A much more accurate analogy is a disease of oppressions which eats at women’s creations over a period of years and decades. Reviewers claiming you didn’t present adequate PROOF of discrimination are in fact PROVING how it still exists by using it against you and your work.
Can’t wait to learn more about your next book! Looking forward to it very much!