Oh dear yes about that gender stereotype: there's one author who may be much better than I give her credit for, but I gave up in her first book when she had the standard pure heroine with an adversary who was both a raging practically out of control nymphomaniac, and calculatingly using sex for various extra-sexual reasons. Um: it's not as though as at any point she is shown thinking to herself that she will use her little problem for her malign purposes, she seems to be switching from lust-crazed to calculating depending on the particular scene. Grrrrr.
Jacqueline Carey managed to invert several stereotypes in the Kushiel trilogy, but I'm having difficulty in thinking of many others.
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Mon, Nov. 1st, 2004 06:01 am (UTC)Oh dear yes about that gender stereotype: there's one author who may be much better than I give her credit for, but I gave up in her first book when she had the standard pure heroine with an adversary who was both a raging practically out of control nymphomaniac, and calculatingly using sex for various extra-sexual reasons. Um: it's not as though as at any point she is shown thinking to herself that she will use her little problem for her malign purposes, she seems to be switching from lust-crazed to calculating depending on the particular scene. Grrrrr.
Jacqueline Carey managed to invert several stereotypes in the Kushiel trilogy, but I'm having difficulty in thinking of many others.