Editors’ Choice: The Physical Traits that Define Men and Women in Literature
Digital Humanities Now 2020-07-22
Summary:
My book club was reading The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. In the middle of an otherwise unremarkable plot, we found a 35-page interlude about a highly attractive fairy, describing her body in minute, eye-rolling detail. After slogging through that book, I began paying attention to similarly stereotyped descriptions of bodies in other books....