Twilight of the Grrrls: Stephenie Meyer’s Rehash of the Feminine Mystique

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Casarini, Alice
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Even in the current, post-millennial scenario, the path toward gender equality is still a long and winding road, and a disturbing amount of evidence in the daily news continues to remind us how far women have yet to walk to fight the patriarchal Weltanschauung that persists in most corners of the planet, be it in the form of blatant abuse, in subtler forms of discrimination, or, in particularly disheartening cases, in the resurrection of archaic chauvinistic beliefs pronounced by public figures who have had a regrettably profound influence on entire generations of young women. In the allegedly illuminated turn-of-the-millennium United States, a single pen-woman managed to wield her quill in such a determined fashion that her literary production alone represents one of the worst setbacks ever for feminism and for the victories achieved by the Suffragettes, the Women’s Liberation Front, and the millions of women who stood up for gender equality over the past century. In her four-volume Twilight saga, forty-year-old fiction writer Stephenie Meyer devoted literally thousands of pages to the depiction of a female character who is entirely subservient to the male figures in her life. Under the cover of a whimsical, temperamental facade and the lure of paranormal romance, her alter-ego heroine Bella Swan (and her cinematic version portrayed by lackluster actress Kristen Stewart) ultimately turns out to be not just a marionette in her creator’s toy theater, but also the ultimate puppet in the hands of her male pipers to whose tune she is ready to dance whenever they pull her strings. Twilight of the Grrrls: Stephenie Meyer’s Rehash of the Feminine Mystique
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