A small and amusing note from my Gender & Spec Fic students:

We read <lj-user="tammypierce">'s In The Hand of the Goddess on Friday, as representative of the 80s/90s trend of feminist goddessy geek stuff aimed at the younger sections of society, which was great fun. There were are fair gaggle who read the Alanna books as kids, but most hadn't heard of them.

Awesomely enough, while the class was pretty much in agreement that the positive sexuality in the book was a good thing, many of the students who hadn't read the complete series took exception with Prince Jonathan - they thought he was too controlling, that Alanna spent too much of their time together worrying about her femininity or lack thereof, and several said that in contrast, they thought she could be entirely herself with George Cooper. At which point those of us who were Tortall junkies started making smothered giggling noises. Oh George/Alanna - theirloveissoobvious!

They have a short paper due tomorrow, and I'm kind of hoping that I get lots of Tortall readings.