Many people hold the freedom of speech as one of the most important freedoms yet despite this fact many works are still censored or banned. Although both men and women have much of their work banned or censored, since I am focusing on the study of women I have only provided examples of women:
Censored Women Authors
More importantly though then the disappointing fact that these authors were censored though is to ask why they were censored. Was it because of the subject matter? Was it because they were women? Or was it because they were women covering a certain subject matter? The following website attempts to describe some of the reasons why women may have been censored. Many of the reasons they list are reasons that a man would not be censored for.
http://www.wworld.org/publications/powerword1/7cases.htm
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I actually think it's cool that they get on a list. I think that they get read more now than when they weren't on a banned list. My school has lots of posters urging us to read the books on the banned list. The goal was to ban them but all they did was draw attention to them.
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