A Bookstore Is Brilliantly Visualizing Gender Imbalance by Flipping Around All Male-Written Novels

Sometimes your shelves can send a message

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Even if you’re a frequent bookstore peruser, this sight might be a surprise.

Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, Ohio, is cleverly “illustrating the gender gap in fiction” by reversing all novels from male writers so that each book’s identity is hidden. The move comes just in time for International Women’s Day on Wednesday (though, as part of Women’s History Month, the shelves will remain in this state through March 14).

The result is visually jarring, with a vast majority of the fiction shelves suddenly

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