Dystopian Fiction? Or Dystopian Reality... ( FEMINIST LENS:) )
In the novel, "The Grace Year" by Kim Ligget, there are a TON of feminist ideals hiding behind the surface. There are also a TON of misogynistic ideas that I have encountered as well. Overall, the main feminist conclusion from reading this book is that women are pitted against each other ultimately for the sake of men. An example that immediately made my jaw drop was the rule in their society that at age 16, women come into their "magic". I interpreted this so called "magic" as sex appeal/seduction and assumed that the men in charge of this dystopian society were making excuses for their inability to control themselves or their minds. This also includes some of the brainwashed, bitter wives who looked at the young women as monsters, terrified of their so-called "power". Another key part I noticed in the novel is how w omen in this society are one of three things: whores, wives, or nobodies residing in the fields. They are given no power, no
