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Every once in a while, a book comes along that makes you look at familiar novels with completely new eyes. Courting Disaster by Dr. Zoë McGee is one of those rare reads.
At first glance, it’s easy to think that conversations about consent and gender power dynamics belong to our modern world—but as McGee reveals, women writers have been exploring these issues for centuries. From Jane Austen and Frances Burney to their now-forgotten contemporaries, McGee traces how the early novel became a space where women could question, resist, and reimagine the rules of society.
