Basically, he lays out in clear, logical detail how Western fairy tales put women in really awful positions for their love, sort of no-win situations .. contrast with India's similar tales, where women face equally huge challenges for their Lover, but their love and sacrifice DO win the day. It's a great, short read.
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haven't read the novel, but that essay brings an awesome book to mind, one that cracks open the unconscious Western cultural bias of that (otherwise good) essay:
http://www.amazon.com/Femininity-Lost-Regained-Robert-Johnson/dp/0060920637
Basically, he lays out in clear, logical detail how Western fairy tales put women in really awful positions for their love, sort of no-win situations .. contrast with India's similar tales, where women face equally huge challenges for their Lover, but their love and sacrifice DO win the day. It's a great, short read.
Since Shades of Grey is Twilight oriented, you might enjoy this somewhat long set of reads about just how truly awful the Twilight series is, for it's egregious use of Mormonism and other cheap writing:
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/317176.html
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/317857.html
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/318658.html
http://stoney321.livejournal.com/319735.html
(note, Stoney's analysis is years old, but still hilarious, and worth looking for all the animated SPARKLE images she uses!)