In the realm of high fantasy, narratives have long been dominated by patriarchal structures, where women serve as objects of desire, damsels in distress, or rewards for male heroes. Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Dart disrupts this model by presenting a world in which female sexuality is both sacred and strategic. At the novel’s center is PhèdreContinue reading “Sexual Power and Sacred Femininity: A Feminist Reading of Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel’s Dart”
