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Title: Elizabeth, Jane and Jo are still models for us all
Review: This book was a boring rehash of half-baked so-called feminist literary perspective, which insults great women writers of the past and discourages anything like dissent in women writers today. If Deborah O'Keefe lives to be 100, she will never be worth the dust on Jane Austin's shoes or the frill on Charlotte Bronte's petticoat or the ink on Lousia Alcott's apron. Elizabeth Bennet, Jane Eyre and Jo March are smart, strong, and morally good. I suspect it is the last of these qualities that upsets Ms. O'Keefe. Why is it that some people find the idea of being "good" so threatening? For most of us, being good is a virtue to be admired in both girls and boys. As for reading, check out the article by Gina Dalfong "Where Has Jane Eyre Gone?" in the June 25 Weekly Standard. By the way, I was a charter subscriber to Ms. Magazine but dropped it because the fiction was so dreadful...
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