There's a lot of problematic misogyny in Austen's work too, like women being "reckless" until they're cured by a bump to a head or a really bad illness that cures their "fever of the brain" and they become nice placid women who settle down with a husband (i.e. Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion).
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Date: 2010-06-27 02:08 am (UTC)From: