![]() ![]() It is not considered to be the norm or even healthy for girls to be aware of their sexuality unless it’s coquettish. Calla needs to prove she’s the pack’s alpha, but there are forces working against that.ĪC: Sexuality and sexual awakening were key for me to explore in this book because so often the ‘boys will be boys’ attitude is still so dominant in contemporary society. JC: That brings up another idea you tackle - society’s fear of the powerful female and its desire to suppress her. You’re allowed to be a warrior but only to a certain extent before she would have to submit to someone else, and that someone else was always going to be a man. Eowyn in Lord of the Rings, I lived for the moment when she ripped off her helmet and said, ‘No living man am I!’ I wanted a character with all those qualities, but the parameters of society were constantly around her telling her she couldn’t do that. Andrea Cremer: I’m very much a feminist, and as a girl I was so needing strong young women to be heroines to me in the books I read. ![]()
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