http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/06/wicked.html Calling Patriarchy As We See It Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:36:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/06/wicked.html/comment-page-1#comment-55982 Grace Barnes Sat, 15 May 2010 12:21:22 +0000 http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/06/wicked.html#comment-55982 How can it be a feminist musical when the two lead characters - Elpheba and Glinda - spend the entire show chasing the affections of one man? And Nessa Rose obsesses over another? Surely a feminist musical would have the women realising they are better off on their own! Or at least have the women interested in SOMETHING else in life .... How can it be a feminist musical when the two lead characters – Elpheba and Glinda – spend the entire show chasing the affections of one man? And Nessa Rose obsesses over another? Surely a feminist musical would have the women realising they are better off on their own! Or at least have the women interested in SOMETHING else in life ….

]]> http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/06/wicked.html/comment-page-1#comment-47 Anna Lisa Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:52:13 +0000 http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/06/wicked.html#comment-47 thanks for commenting, Audrey! gravity? i have to see this musical! thanks for commenting, Audrey!
gravity? i have to see this musical!

]]> http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/06/wicked.html/comment-page-1#comment-46 Audrey Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:48:27 +0000 http://www.thefeministreview.com/2008/06/wicked.html#comment-46 I have yet to read the novel but I saw the musical, and I would say, this is definitely a feminist story. Women bond with each other across societal judgment, and work for their own purposes in different stations in life. Animal liberation and justice is integral to the liberation of women. Prejudice about physical ability is exposed as the real disability. And the music simply rocks. Who needs gravity, anyway? I have yet to read the novel but I saw the musical, and I would say, this is definitely a feminist story. Women bond with each other across societal judgment, and work for their own purposes in different stations in life. Animal liberation and justice is integral to the liberation of women. Prejudice about physical ability is exposed as the real disability. And the music simply rocks. Who needs gravity, anyway?

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