We went to the used bookstore in Montague, MA, the Book Mill. "Books you don't need in a place you can't find." That's close to true, but we did find it, and we each bought a book. Finding a book to buy is not usually a problem, but in ultraliberal Connecticut Valley, home to Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Hampshire, and UMass-Amherst, one has to search a little harder. The Christianity section specialises in heresies, for example, or things that don't even rise to the level of heresy. They have some good atlases, but I am no longer in the market.
There were a lot of books by women who were emphatic that they would not be silenced. It seems that lots of folks everywhere like to publish such books. Someday we may be able to declare the problem solved.
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Yes, there are whole industries devoted to publishing books and articles by women who will not be silenced. These days there are myriad TikTok channels and Instagram ones, Twitter feeds and Facebook groups devoted to that project as well.
I used to think as you did, that someday it might be considered solved; yet now I don't think that after all. Publishing so many is probably even more effective than actually silencing them at keeping them from being heard. Now it's all just noise, and no one woman's signal can get through. No one particular tale about 'being silenced' can be heard over the constant murmur of ten thousand new such tales every day.
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