{"id":1557,"date":"2014-05-12T15:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T19:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/research.prattsils.org\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2019-07-25T17:42:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T17:42:04","slug":"a-damsel-without-distress-the-role-of-feminism-in-barry-deutschs-hereville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2014\/a-damsel-without-distress-the-role-of-feminism-in-barry-deutschs-hereville","title":{"rendered":"A Damsel Without Distress: The Role of Feminism in Barry Deutsch&#8217;s Hereville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/hereville.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1918\" alt=\"hereville\" src=\"http:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/05\/hereville-200x300.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\"><\/a>There are expected tropes associated with the traditional fairy tale: heroes come in the form of strong, dashing young men; stepmothers are the epitome of evil; and young women only exist to be beautiful, but inept damsels who must always be rescued from great peril. Barry Deutsch\u2019s two-part <em>Hereville<\/em> series is not the traditional fairy tale. While it certainly boasts its fair share of witches, trolls, anthropomorphic pigs and meteorites, and a protagonist who dreams of slaying dragons, said protagonist is an eleven-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl named Mirka. Deutsch does not just lazily attribute stereotypically masculine characteristics to his heroine and label it feminism. The strength of women is explored in a variety of ways, and feminine traits are not dismissed as weak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A social commentary paper on the feminist nature of Barry Deutsch&#8217;s graphic novel series, Hereville. Explores the complex depictions of the female characters, weaving in their various impacts on the story&#8217;s heroine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":229,"featured_media":7521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[146,147,131],"coauthors":[597],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-128","tag-critical-analysis","tag-feminism","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7522,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/7522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}