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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chick lit is a term used to describe a type of popular fiction targeted at younger women.
Widely used in the 1990s and 2000s, the term has fallen out of fashion with
publishers[1] while writers and critics have rejected its inherent sexism.[2] Novels identified
as chick lit typically address romantic relationships, female friendships, and workplace
struggles in humorous and lighthearted ways.[3] Typical protagonists are urban,
heterosexual women in their late twenties and early thirties:[4][5] the 1990s chick lit heroine
represented an evolution of the traditional romantic heroine in her assertiveness,
financial independence and enthusiasm for conspicuous consumption.[6]
The format developed through the early 1990s on both sides of the Atlantic with books
such as Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale (1992, US) and Catherine Alliott's The Old
Girl Network (1994, UK). Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary (1996, UK), wildly
popular globally, is the "ur text" of chick lit, while Candace Bushnell's (US) 1997
novel Sex and the City has huge ongoing cultural influence.[7][8] By the late 1990s, chick
lit titles regularly topped bestseller lists, and many imprints were created devoted
entirely to chick lit. By the mid-2000s, commentators noted that the chick lit market was
increasingly saturated,[9] and by the early 2010s, publishers had largely abandoned the
category. The term "chick lit" maintains an afterlife as a popular category for readers
and amateur writers on the Internet.

Origins of the term[edit]

Author Terry McMillan, in 2008. McMillan's 1992 novel Waiting to Exhale predated the chick-lit label but, in its
focus on the lives of a group of 30-something single women professionals, has been identified as a key
precursor of the category

See also: Chick flick

See also: Lad lit
In 1992, Los Angeles Times critic Carolyn See was probably the first to spot that a new
style of popular women's fiction was emerging. Though she didn't use the term chick lit,
in a review of Terry McMillan's Waiting to Exhale, the critic noted that McMillan's book
was not "lofty" or "luminous" but was likely to be highly commercially successful.
Carolyn See wrote, "McMillan’s new work is part of another genre entirely, so new it
doesn’t really have a name yet. This genre has to do with women, triumph, revenge,
comradeship."[10]
Chick lit did not become an established term for a style of novel until the second half of
the 1990s. "Chick" is American slang for a young woman, and "lit" is a shortened form of
the word "literature." There was probably no single origin of the term: Princeton
University students were reported in 1988 to use chick lit as slang for a course on
women's writing[11] and, in the UK, Oxford Reference report that the term arose as a
"flippant counterpart" to the term "lad lit".[12] The parallel term used for movies, chick flick,
enjoyed slightly earlier uptake[1] (chick flick is said to have been coined after the 1993
film Sleepless in Seattle in which a male character discusses "chicks' movie[s]").[13] In
what was probably one of its first major outings, the term chick lit was deployed
ironically: a 1995 anthology edited by Cris Mazza and Jeffrey DeShell entitled Chick Lit:
Postfeminist Fiction contained 22 short fiction pieces in response to Mazza and
DeShell's call for "postfeminist writing".[14] Early use of the term was heavily associated
with journalism (both Bridget Jones Diary and Sex in the City began as newspaper
columns) and James Wolcott's 1996 article in The New Yorker, "Hear Me Purr," co-
opted the term chick lit to proscribe what he called the trend of "girlishness" evident in
the writing of female newspaper columnists at that time.[15]
In the early years, there was some variation on the exact term used: in 2000,
the Sydney Morning Herald reported the birth of a "publishing phenomenon" that can be
called "chick fiction."[16]
At the peak of the term's popularity, a slew of related sub-genres were proposed with
similar names: sistah lit (targeted at Black readers),[17] chick lit jr (for young readers),
[17]
 mommy lit,[17] and chick lit in corsets (historical fiction, and a term only found in one
academic paper).[18] The relationship with the term lad lit is more complicated; lad lit
arose before or in parallel with chick lit.[12] Of these parallel terms, mommy lit, and lad lit
are the only terms to have enjoyed any significant uptake - and that a tiny fraction of the
use of the primary term chick lit.[1]

Writers and critics[edit]

Controversy over chick lit focused at first on the literary value of books identified or
promoted as part of the genre. Over time, controversy has focused more on the term
itself, and whether the concept of a chick lit genre is inherently sexist.
In 1998, reviewer Alex Kuczynski, writing for The New York Times, condemned
Fielding's novel in particular, writing: "Bridget is such a sorry spectacle, wallowing in her
man-crazed helplessness, that her foolishness cannot be excused."[19] In 2001,
writer Doris Lessing deemed the genre "instantly forgettable" while Beryl
Bainbridge called the genre "a froth sort of thing".[20] Author Jenny Colgan immediately
fired back at Lessing and Bainbridge, explaining why, for a new generation of women,
chick lit was an important development:
We really are the first generation who have grown up with education as a right; with
financial independence; with living on our own and having far too many choices about
getting married (while watching our baby boomer parents fall apart), having children
(while watching our elder sisters run themselves ragged trying to do everything), and
hauling ourselves up through the glass ceiling.
Who reflects this? Growing up in the 1980s all we had to read if we wanted commercial
fiction, were thick, shiny, brick novels covered in gold foil, in which women with long
blonde hair built up business empires from harsh beginnings using only their
extraordinary beauty and occasionally some goldfish...
With BJD, for the first time, here we were. The first time I read it, it was an absolute
revelation to see my life and confusion reflected in print.
— Jenny Colgan, 2001[21]
Two years later Colgan had turned strongly against the term chick lit, being the first to
state what is now a mainstream position among writers of women's popular fiction: she
rejected the term chick lit while defending the cultural value of her work. She observed,
"Chick-lit is a deliberately condescending term they use to rubbish us all. If they called it
slut-lit it couldn't be any more insulting."[22] Much of the debate at this time was between
different generations of women writers: for example, Maureen Dowd (b.1952) described
the younger women's work as "all chick and no lit,"[23] while Colgan (b.1972) derided the
older, female critics of chick lit as "hairy-leggers."[22] There was a "troubling" lack of
solidarity.[23]
In 2005, debate continued with the publication of editor Elizabeth Merrick's anthology of
women's fiction, This Is Not Chick Lit (2005), where Merrick argued in her introduction
that "Chick lit's formula numbs our senses."[24] In response, self-identifying chick-lit
author Lauren Baratz-Logsted published her own anthology of stories This Is Chick
Lit[25] whose project was "born out of anger" and aimed to prove that chick lit was not all
"Manolos and cosmos, and cookie-cutter books about women juggling relationships and
careers in the new millennium," but rather that the genre deals with "friendship and
laughter, love and death - i.e. the stuff of life."[25]
In 2007, Diane Shipley[26] came to the genre's defence, arguing that chick lit books
increasingly covered serious topics but, anyway, "I just don't see what's morally or
intellectually wrong with reading a book you enjoy and relate to, that might not draw
deep conclusions about the future of humanity but might cheer you up after a bad day,
or see you through your own health problems."
However, in general through the late 2000s and 2010s writers of women's popular
fiction increasingly distanced themselves from the term chick lit, while arguing that
blanket critical dismissals of their work were rooted in sexism. For example, in a
2010 Guardian article, humor writer DJ Connell leads with changing her writing name
from Diane to DJ to avoid the chick lit label.[27] Sophie Kinsella and Marian Keyes, two
authors who have enjoyed huge success through and beyond the chick lit era, both now
reject the term. Kinsella refers to her own work as "romantic comedy".[28] Keyes said of
the term in 2014,
It's meant to be belittling. It's as if it's saying, "Oh you silly girls, with your pinkness and
shoes, how will you ever run the world?" But as I've matured (haha) I’ve realised that I'm
very proud of what I write about and I know that the books I write bring happiness and
comfort to people.

— Marian Keyes, 2014  [29]

At an event at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August 2020, Keyes again rejected the
term chick lit as dismissive and sexist, as popular fiction written by men is not described
as "dick lit".[30]

Publishers[edit]
In 2000, Sydney Morning Herald described the "publishing phenomenon" of what it
called "chicfic," books with "Covers [that] are candy-bright, heavy in pink and
fluorescence. The titles are also candy-bright, hinting at easy digestion and a good
laugh... ...Such books are positioned in a marketplace as hybrids of the magazine
article, fictional or fictionalised, television...and comfort food digestible over a single
night at home."[16]
Through the 2000s publishers continue to push the subgenre because sales continue to
be high. In 2003, Publishers Weekly reported on numerous new chick lit imprints, such
as, "Kensington's Strapless, which launched in April 2003 and has one book a month
scheduled through the end of 2004. Kensington editorial director John Scognamiglio
explained that the imprint was created in response to requests from salespeople for a
chick lit brand." Nonetheless, the same Publishers Weekly article was already looking
back enviously at the massive sales achieved by Bridget Jones's Diary in 1998 and
commenting on the challenges for chick lit publishers in a now-overcrowded market.
Already, Publishers Weekly suggested, chick lit was - if not in decline - at least at a
turning point.[31]
In 2008, editor Sara Nelson stated that the definition of what's considered to be within
the genre of chick lit has become more accomplished and "grown up".[32]
By 2012 news sources were reporting the death of chick lit. Salon.com reported that
"Because chick lit (whatever it is - or was) provoked so many ideologically fraught
arguments about the values placed on women's vs. men's tastes, high- vs. lowbrow
culture, comedy vs. drama and so on, it's tempting to read particular significance into its
decline," but went on to argue that the decline was due to a normal process of changing
fashion and taste in genre fiction.[33]

Chick lit globally[edit]

Though chick lit originated in the UK and U.S., it rapidly became a global publishing
phenomenon - and indeed may have been one of the first truly global publishing trends.
India[edit]
In India, Rajashree's Trust Me was the biggest-selling Indian chick lit novel.[34] The
popularity of novels like Trust Me,[35] Swati Kaushal's Piece of Cake [36] can be seen in the
context of the rise of regional varieties of chick lit.[37] In an interview with the New York
Times, Helen Fielding said, "I think it had far more to do with zeitgeist than imitation." If
the chick lit explosion has "led to great new female writers emerging from Eastern
Europe and India, then it's worth any number of feeble bandwagon jumpers."[9] Sunaina
Kumar wrote in the Indian Express, "Ten years after the publication of Bridget Jones's
Diary, the genre of fiction most recognisable for its pink cover art of stilettos, martini
glasses and lipsticks, is now being colourfully infused with bindis, saris, and bangles."
Indian chick lit is sometimes referred to as 'ladki-lit'.[38]
Brazil[edit]
In Brazil, chick lit in translation is categorised as "Literatura de mulherzinha." -inha is the
Portuguese diminutive form, so this means, literally, "little-women's literature." One
Brazilian commentator notes, "The diminutive is not by accident. Just as its not by
accident that the covers of books by women writers are usually, stereotypically
feminine. With covers that suggest a light and romantic, commercial plot.. ....books by
female authors arrive to the a reader with a series of biases which ensure that these
authors remain on the cultural bottom rung."[39]

Chick lit online[edit]

The development and decline of chick lit as a publishing phenomenon coincided with an
explosion in internet usage in the developed world.[40] The academic Sandra Folie argues
that "Fans and their websites or blogs, online presences of newspapers, magazines, or
publishing houses, and also the free encyclopedia Wikipedia" played a key part in
defining and shaping the concept of a chick lit genre.[41] Folie discusses the British
site chicklit.co.uk which was online from 2002-2014 and included information no just on
books and authors but also lifestyle issues for young women. The
American Chicklitbooks.com was online from 2003 to 2013 discussing, "Hip, bright
literature for today’s modern woman."[41] As chick lit declined as a publishing category
fans online created their own response: in 2012 a website
called chicklitisnotdead.com was reported to have 25,000 users.[42] In 2022 an active
chick lit community group on the goodreads.com site had 4,756 members.[43]

See also[edit]
 Chick flick
 Feminism
 Fratire
 Lad lit
 Women's literature

References[edit]
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2. ^ Mißler, Heike (2016).  The Cultural Politics of Chick Lit: Popular Fiction, Postfeminism and
Representation. London: Routledge. pp.  13–14, 45. ISBN 9781138648241.
3. ^ "In the Classroom or In the Bedroom" Archived 28 August 2008 at the Wayback Machine Review
of Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction.
4. ^ Rebecca Vnuk (15 July 2005).  "Collection Development 'Chick Lit': Hip Lit for Hip Chicks".
Libraryjournal.com. Archived from the original  on 1 December 2010. Retrieved 30 September  2010.
5. ^ "The White Terry McMillan Centering Black Women Within Chick Lit's Genealogy". Taylor and
Francis Group. 2018. doi:10.4324/9781315107400-9.  S2CID 195512533.
6. ^ Chen, Eva Yin-i (March 2010).  "Neoliberal Self-Governance and Popular Postfeminism in
Contemporary Anglo-American Chick Lit"  (PDF). Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies.  36  (1):
243–275.
7. ^ Whelehan, Imelda (2002). Bridget Jones's Diary: A Reader's Guide. Bloomsbury Academic.
8. ^ Smith, Caroline J. (2008). Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit. Routledge.
9. ^ Jump up to:a b Rachel Donadio "The Chick-Lit Pandemic", The New York Times, 19 March 2006.
10. ^ See, Carolyn (22 June 1992).  "BOOK REVIEW  : A Novel of Women Triumph, Revenge and
Comradeship  : WAITING TO EXHALE". Los Angeles Times.
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December 2021 – via Oxford Reference. The term appeared from 1996 as a flippant counterpart to
the lad-lit fiction of that time.
13. ^ Bunch, Sonny (17 April 2019). "In defense of the 'chick flick' label".  Washington Post. Retrieved  4
August  2022.
14. ^ Mazza, Chris; Jeffrey DeShell (1995).  Chick-Lit On the Edge: New Womens Fiction Anthology. FC2.
15. ^ Wolcott, James (12 May 1996).  "Hear Me Purr".  The New Yorker. Retrieved 3
August  2022. (Subscription required.)
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Ehriander".  Journal of Popular Romance Studies. Retrieved 30 March  2018.
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20. ^ "Bainbridge Denounces Chick-Lit as 'Froth'". The Guardian. 22 August 2001. Retrieved  1
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21. ^ Colgan, Jenny (24 August 2001).  "We Know the Difference Between Foie Gras and Hula Hoops,
Beryl, but Sometimes We Just Want Hula Hoops". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 August  2021.
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novelist". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August  2022.
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chicks?".  the Guardian. Retrieved 30 March  2018.
28. ^ Aitkenhead, Decca (12 February 2012). "Sophie Kinsella: 'You can be highly intelligent – and also
ditzy and klutzy'".  the Guardian. Retrieved 5 August  2022. I mean, it's not the ideal term; when I'm
asked to describe what I do, I say I write romantic comedies, cos that's what I feel they are.
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lit".  Chatelaine. Retrieved  20 October 2017.
30. ^ Marian Keyes: Family Matters, 19 August 2020
31. ^ Natalie Danford (2003). "The Chick Lit Question".  Publishers' Weekly.
32. ^ Olivia Barker (29 May 2008). "'Prada' nips at author Lauren Weisberger's heels". USA Today.
Retrieved 5 October 2010.  Nelson says. "The definition of chick lit has expanded to include some
things that are a little more accomplished and grown-up and literary than what that term used to
mean.
33. ^ Miller, Laura (23 February 2012).  "The death of chick lit".  salon.com. Retrieved  3 August 2022.
34. ^ Raaj, Neelan (27 July 2008).  "Write Up Their Alley".  Times of India. Retrieved 17 August  2022.
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36. ^ India's Cheeky "Chick Lit" Finds An Audience
37. ^ Asha Menon "Indian chick lit?"
38. ^ Sunaina Kumar "The Rise of Ladki-Lit", The Indian Express, 8 October 2006.
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de..." Revista Pólen  (in Portuguese). Retrieved 19 August  2022.
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history page".  International Journal of Digital Humanities. Springer Science and Business Media
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Further reading[edit]
 Gill, Rosalind; Herdieckerhoff, Elena (December 2006). "Rewriting the romance:
new femininities in chick lit?"  (PDF). Feminist Media Studies. 6 (4): 487–
504. doi:10.1080/14680770600989947. S2CID 55208553.
 Roy, Pinaki. "The Chick Factor: A Brief Survey of the Indian Chick-lit Novels", The
Postcolonial Woman Question: Readings in Indian Women Novelists in English.
Eds. Ray, G.N. and J. Sarkar. Kolkata: Books Way, 2011 (ISBN 978-93-80145-84-
6). pp. 213–23.

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