Category: feminsim
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Priory of the Orange Tree
Slaying dragons is an ancient literary tradition, one that goes back to some of the earliest texts that we have. And The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon shows that this genre is very much alive and well. In her feminist retelling of this time tested trope, Shannon…
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How to be a Renaissance Woman
Everyone has those days where Venus is more elusive than others. It’s just a hazard of being alive, and a woman. The pursuit of beauty not only binds us together now but connects us to all the women of the past. As Jill Burke argues in her book How to…
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Half Sick of Shadows
Lily maid, Elaine Asholot, the Lady of Shallot: she goes by many names, but her friends simply call her El. At least they do in Laura Sebastian’s novel “Half Sick of Shadows.” Titled after a line from Tennyson’s famous poem on the character of Arthurian legend, the book does not…
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