Literary prestige is allocated by gendered hierarchy of subject matter

Evidence

There is a hierarchy of subject matter. Warfare should get more space than childbirth, though both are bloody. Burning the bodies rates higher than burning the cakes. If a woman engages with “masculine” subjects, it has not saved her from being trivialized; if a man descends to the domestic, writes fluently of love, marriage, children, he is praised for his empathy, his restraint; he is commended as intrepid, as if he had ventured among the savages to get secret knowledge. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1047

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes and sharpens the running theme of women’s work being devalued while men’s domestic empathy is exoticized as intrepid discovery. — connects to: Authorial attribution functions as a gendered economy of credit — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 693; Publishing operates a racial economy of recognizable authorship — , The Braided Reading EPUB: 5-Year…, 669; Rushdie’s female characters bear a sexually overdetermined representational burden absent from his male characters — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 574 (+3 more)
• SEED: Angle: the gendered double standard where men are ‘intrepid’ for writing domestic life.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1047