not to be included in all-female poetry anthologies is still adhered to today.Lumping together artistic work according to gender was, in Bishop's opinion, detrimental to women's writing. In a letter to Jean Keefe, she writes: 'undoubtedly gender does play an important role in the making of any art, but art is art, and to separate writings, paintings, musical compositions, etc., into two sexes is to emphasize values in them that are not art.'
from Granta: Elizabeth Bishop and Sacrificial Feminism
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