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Feb. 24th, 2012 05:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tylikSo, how many young women's coming of age type novels do not present True Love (or marriage and kids, or some other variant) as the point of fulfilment.
This is inspired in part by reading yet another retelling of Hua Mulan in which the big thing at the end was that she got to marry the boy she wanted, because marrying for love is All That. Not that I'm against marrying for love, or marrying, for that matter, but the extent to which it is presented as The "and then they lived happily ever after" even for empowered young women kind of squicks me out.
I'm not excluding books that include falling in love, getting laid, getting married or any of that - just those that present this as the crowning resolution point.
This is inspired in part by reading yet another retelling of Hua Mulan in which the big thing at the end was that she got to marry the boy she wanted, because marrying for love is All That. Not that I'm against marrying for love, or marrying, for that matter, but the extent to which it is presented as The "and then they lived happily ever after" even for empowered young women kind of squicks me out.
I'm not excluding books that include falling in love, getting laid, getting married or any of that - just those that present this as the crowning resolution point.
