{"id":283050,"date":"2018-09-24T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/24\/so-apparently-male-authors-have-been-making-their-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T17:54:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T17:54:19","slug":"so-apparently-male-authors-have-been-making-their-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/09\/24\/so-apparently-male-authors-have-been-making-their-2\/","title":{"rendered":"So Apparently Male Authors Have Been Making Their Wives Do All The Typing"},"content":{"rendered":"

So Apparently Male Authors Have Been Making Their Wives Do All The Typing<\/a><\/p>\n

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thosewerethestories<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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apensivelady<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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danielle-mertina<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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fempunkandkittens<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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doubleplusunlucky<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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beautytruthandstrangeness<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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squeeful<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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smallswingshoes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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orriculum<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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angualupin<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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sixth-light<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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diamondinternational<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s incredible how much women do behind the scenes. I know a realtor who relies strongly on his girlfriend\u2019s charisma, beauty and personality to gain clients.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019ve just been reading The Glass Universe by Dava Sobel, about the Harvard women who supported the bulk of astronomy research there over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While many of them did receive public and academic credit as well as pay – although the university always resisted making any of them faculty until the 1950s – almost all<\/i>\u00a0the male astronomers featured were married to accomplished women in their own right, many of them scientists, and you can bet their husbands weren\u2019t putting them on all their papers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Which has bled into the modern academic world, where many people are expected to do what was essentially a two-person job (filled by male academic + wife) by themselves, or while married to someone else trying to do the same thing. The lack of acknowledgement of women\u2019s work fucks everybody over.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

#people who want a return to the mythical prior era #when women did not work #do not want women to stop working #they want them to stop getting credit and pay for it<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This reminds me of how early film history, it was always the male director\u2019s wife who did the editing of the films, because the cutting and connecting of film strips was considered a lot like sewing. Of course, anyone who knows anything about film and editing can tell you it changes how good a movie is very easily.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t believe me? Look at the differences between the famous Jaws as the public\u2019s release of it (insisted upon by the female editor) and spielberg, the male director\u2019s version of it (missing basic suspense methods, shows the phony shark too much, etc). Same goes for almost every tarantino film. Editing makes or breaks a film and even today, you can bet your socks editing \u201cthe invisible art\u201d was pioneered and is still pushed by women.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

^^^^^^ This is so true! And once film editing began to be recognized as an actual art form, women were shoved out of the editing room so that men could be artistic or whatever. <\/p>\n

Also Tarantino referred to his favorite editor as being kind of like his mom or something and I swear to god the more I see of him, the less I like him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The\u00a0\u201cfemale editor\u201d for\u00a0Jaws<\/i>\u00a0was\u00a0Verna Hellman Fields<\/b>, who cut many other notable films, including American Graffiti<\/i>\u00a0along with Marcia Lucas.<\/p>\n

Tarantino\u2019s\u00a0\u201cfavorite editor\u201d was\u00a0Sally JoAnne Menke <\/b>who edited all of Tarantino\u2019s films until she died.<\/p>\n

Because naming and credit is important, especially when you\u2019re talking about women not getting credit and recognition of their work as named individuals.<\/p>\n

If you want to know more about women in early filmmaking (emphasis American) and the sociology of how different roles were divided, gendered, and re-gendered in the first decades, I highly recommend\u00a0Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood by Karen Ward Mahar<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are a number of other books to follow that, but it\u2019s 2am and I\u2019m tired so hit me up later for them.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

You know what happens when women type? They EDIT. It is a service they are expected to provide invisibly – not to let a mistake or imperfection show to their husband\u2019s audience, but also not to intrude upon his sense that this is all his<\/i>\u00a0ideas and his labor. Wives are the unacknowledged story and script doctors, and often co-authors for so many supposedly male-authored works.<\/p>\n

Also, I second Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood<\/i>. Mahar was my history prof for three or four courses and she is incredibly knowledgeable and engaging.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Speaking anecdotally, there are a good number of rockstar PhD candidates in my program who are only able to put in the hours that they do because their wives function as personal assistants\/editors\/housekeepers\/chefs while they finish up their degrees. I\u2019m not knocking the folks who choose to do this, but the labor of their silent partner is rarely acknowledged and it\u2019s just assumed that they\u2019re preternaturally talented or dedicated. I\u2019ve rarely (never) seen this dynamic reversed, and I\u2019m in a field with a fairly equitable gender ratio.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And the expectation becomes that women can replicate this supernatural talent because that labor isn\u2019t recognized as instrumental to their success.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Wife\u201d by Meg Wolitzer is a good book that fictionalizes this!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is extremely common for all careers. Women are personal assistants\/ secretaries for their male partners. But when a woman has a career \/ when she\u2019s a student she\u2019s expected to handle all of her academic and professional duties and then also do a double shift at home. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In the literary world, I believe one of the most famous examples to be that of Leo Tolstoy\u2019s wife, Sofia Tolstoya, who transcribed all of Tolstoy\u2019s manuscripts, since she was the only person capable of understanding his handwriting.<\/p>\n

@theoldwalkingsong<\/a>, I think you already know all of this, but I\u2019m tagging you nonetheless.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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So Apparently Male Authors Have Been Making Their Wives Do All The Typing thosewerethestories: apensivelady: danielle-mertina: fempunkandkittens: doubleplusunlucky: beautytruthandstrangeness: squeeful: smallswingshoes: orriculum: angualupin: sixth-light: diamondinternational: It\u2019s incredible how much women do behind the scenes. I know a realtor who relies strongly on his girlfriend\u2019s charisma, beauty and personality to gain clients. I\u2019ve just been reading … <\/p>\n

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