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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nThanks to the diligence of an intrepid (read: bored) late-night Wikipedia user \u2014 who also happened to be a New York Times reporter \u2014 the massive info website is under fire for quietly moving the women in the \"American novelists\" category into a separate one, \"American women novelists,\" because apparently the uterus is its own genre.As the user pointed out in the Times, a whole range of female writers, the authors of iconic, amazing novels, no longer existed on the main American novelists page: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ayn Rand, Ann Beattie, Aimee Bender, Amy Bloom, Judy Blume, Alice Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Higgins Clark, Harper Lee, Anne Rice, Amy Tan and Donna Tartt, among 300 others.The distinction between \"novelists\" and \"female novelists\" has been present since Virginia Woolf penned A Room of One's Own about the specific needs of women writers, and probably even before. Unlike so-called literary fiction, a subgenre most often relegated to contemporary male writers' novels, women's fiction often gets a cartoon woman on the cover and an unfair marketing as chick lit-ish beach reads. (There's no shame in chick lit, naturally, but to shove all novels by women in that category's patently absurd.) Take, for instance, Random House's packaging of Shutterbabe (originally titled Newswhore), Deborah Copaken's memoir of her time as a war photographer. Wrote Copaken in The Nation: \"The cover that the publisher designs has a naked cartoon torso against a pink background with a camera covering the genitalia. I tell them it's usually my eye behind the camera, not my vagina.\"An editor at Wikipedia has admitted that the person behind the two categories didn't adhere to the website's rule about gendered categories. He also copped that this wasn't the first time Wikipedia was accused of sexism. \"Only about 10 percent or less of the editors at Wikipedia are women... And so a lot of times there's this subconscious, white, male, privileged sexism that exists on Wikipedia that isn't really acknowledged.\" As you can see from the screencap above, currently under review.Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslawImage via Wikipedia"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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