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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 5088486" data-attributes="member: 5">These terms are not interchangeable.  I'd suggest reading this review of a book of essays on Chick Lit and maybe picking up a copy if you are serious about educating yourself on the subject.<a href="http://www.jasna.org/bookrev/br231p21.html" target="_blank">Chick Lit: The New Woman's Fiction</a>For a better understanding of the distinctions in the terms you are trying to use -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_fiction" target="_blank">Women's fiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>If you are interested in some good reading from a whole bunch of Women who write literary fiction, I would suggest [ame=http://www.amazon.com/This-Not-Chick-Lit-Original/dp/0812975677/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1266089399&sr=1-1]This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers[/ame] edited by Elizabeth Merrick.  In her forward she writes, "Chick Lit is a genre, like the thriller, the sci-fi novel, or the fantasy epic.  Its form and content are, more or less, formulaic: white girl in the big city searches for Prince Charming, all the while shopping, alternately cheating on or adhereing to her diet, dodging her boss, and enjoying the occasional teary-eyed lunch with her token Sassy Gay Friend.  Chick Lit is the daughter of the romance novel and the step sister of the fashion magazine."  She credits Bridget Jones's Diary, as others have, as ushering in the genre in 1996.  The modern literary fiction you will find in the book edited by Merrick is, as advertised, Not Chick Lit.And here's a bit of advice, too.  When referring to women under any circumstances, but particularly when attempting to solicit their input on matters pertaining to "women's issues" (as you put it), it is probably unwise to refer to them as "the ladies" as that has become as rather cliché moniker best reserved as dilogue escaping the the slobbering lips of someone in leisure suit with a come-over while on the make at some local lounge during happy hour.</blockquote>

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