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A Feminist Goodbye (For Now) To "Harry Potter" and "Friday Night Lights"
by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check
July 15, 2011 - 10:00am (Print)
Even more than that, the women in these stories have transcended being "good female characters" who subvert stereotyps into just being good characters, period; real ones, ones whose journeys we are, sometimes to a desperate extent, obsessed with.
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True Love Jane (Austen and Campion) Style
by Sarah Seltzer, RH Reality Check
February 12, 2010 - 8:00am (Print)
Favorite romantic works of art as of late? Two old-fashioned, British costume dramas: "Emma" on TV and "Bright Star" in theaters. Some say these represent
a backlash against sexual liberation but both achieve the goal of being enrapturing and romantic while subtly
critiquing conventional conceptions of love.
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