On Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:03:02 -0500 Martha Bartter wrote:
> Robin McKinley does a really powerful number on the "really
attractive"
> attraction in _Deerskin_ which is our final novel in the fantasy
class
> this semester. We have some students in the class with a feminist
> orientation (Women's Studies minor), and some with a very
traditional
> outlook on fantasy. They are dissecting the "beauty myth" rather
> cogently from that book...
>
> Have any of you taught/read it? I find it very powerful (more so in a
> way than Russ, because it's more psychologically sympathetic),
but
> absolutely ruthless. We're only just opening the conversation at
this
> point in class, but I expect things will get even more exciting soon.
>
>
> Martha Bartter
> Truman State University
A very powerful novel> I won't ever get to teach it I suspect But I
have recommended it to a number of people.
Farah
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