Ageing, Popular Culture and Contemporary Feminism: Harleys ...
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Sanna Lehtonen takes the position that ''[f]antasy fiction offers writers a field where they can reimagine societal structures, norms and conventions related to gender.''1 While this potential is not always explored, children''s and familyorientated fantasy, especially inspired by fairy tale, provides a particularly imaginative space for negotiating age and its gendered implications, since such fantasy is defined and promoted by age appropriateness. The profusion of witches and older men in ...