feminism Archives - Cathrin Hagey https://www.cathrinhagey.com/tag/feminism/ Author and Blogger Mon, 09 Oct 2023 19:13:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 67173325 Spinning https://www.cathrinhagey.com/spinning/ Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:47:35 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=4007 Cross-posted at Luna Station Quarterly. “My daughter can spin straw into gold.” The miller’s boast captures a king’s interest and the innocent, ordinary girl must do the impossible—or die. “Rumpelstiltskin,” as told by the Grimms in 1812, is a familiar story whose origins go back hundreds of years. In variants, such as the British “Tom […]

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]]> 4007 The Heroine’s Journey in Room https://www.cathrinhagey.com/the-heroines-journey-in-room/ Tue, 01 Mar 2016 19:08:48 +0000 https://www.cathrinhagey.com/?p=3636 Room (2015) is a movie directed by Lenny Abrahamson, written by Emma Donoghue (based on her award-winning novel), and starring Brie Larson and Jacob Tremblay. It’s about a woman kept prisoner by a rapist in a backyard shed for seven years where she gives birth to a son and raises him for five years before […]

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