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?Harry Potter: Feminist Friend or Foe??

By Bridget Crawford

It was only a matter of time until a book like Harry Potter: Feminist Friend or Foe? hit the presses.  I have an affinity for feminist perspectives and a tolerance for “Law &” just about anything.  I liked the Harry Potter series (although I think it jumped the shark in the Half-Blood Prince), too.  But for some reason, this book doesn’t interest me at all.  Maybe I’m too 21st-century (dare I say “third-wave”?) to think that “friend” vs. “foe” is so easy to distinguish. 

Harry Potter, as a character or as a phenomenon, doesn’t concern me too much.  He/it is just another springboard for interesting conversations, not an ideology that I have to adopt or even an “influence” to be avoided.  Ditto for Deenie, Forever and all of the other books my school librarians never wanted kids to read.

-Bridget Crawford 

Full post as published by Feminist Law Professors on March 31, 2008 (boomark / email).