"...[T]he lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate-
was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the
greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd
were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a
treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath
what the comic books called a 'secret identity'."
What publishers are looking for these days isn't radical feminism.
It's corporate feminism -- a brand of feminism designed to sell books
and magazines, three-piece suits, airline tickets, Scotch, cigarettes
and, most important, corporate America's message, which ru...