il deeds were assumed by some feminist critics to be necessarily victims of their oppression by the patriarchy.
             • The whole speech, by showing what fiction writers are in practice doing as they create their imagined worlds, works to challenge this view. "Isn't bad behaviour supposed to be the monopoly of men? Isn't that what we are expected-in defiance of real life-to somehow believe, now? When bad women get into literature, what are they doing there, and are they permissible, and what, if anything, do we need them for?"
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