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June 13, 2008 10:51 AM
Headless chicklitters*
Bookslut and Gawker have only just noticed that a lot of chick lit books feature headless women.
I was in a train station yesterday (I'd been on the train, I wasn't just loitering) and noticed a couple of similar, headless, covers for women's fiction.
Are these children on these covers? That disturbs me slightly, I must admit.
* I made myself laugh when I thought of this.
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Posted by Keris on June 13, 2008 in Book covers | Permalink
Comments
I've found a lot of books tend to have headless people when they do decide to feature a picture of a person on the cover. Megan McCafferty blogged about it after reading an article that claimed it was a sexist move. I think it just preserves the imaginative quality of the cover: leaves the face of the character to your own thoughts.
Posted by: Kate | June 13, 2008 9:08 PM
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