{"id":574,"date":"2012-04-23T21:00:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T01:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=574"},"modified":"2022-01-20T20:00:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-21T01:00:28","slug":"the-representation-of-women-in-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/the-representation-of-women-in-fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"The representation of women in fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this article author Juliet E. McKenna (<strong>The Thief&#8217;s Gamble<\/strong>) talks about how in fantasy books the characters who drive the plot are predominantly male, why this is, why it&#8217;s important, and what can be done about it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/badreputation.org.uk\/2011\/08\/15\/the-representation-of-women-in-fantasy-whats-the-problem-a-guest-post-by-author-juliet-e-mckenna\/\">The Representation of Women in Fantasy: What\u2019s the Problem?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this article author Juliet E. McKenna (The Thief&#8217;s Gamble) talks about how in fantasy books the characters who drive the plot are predominantly male, why this is, why it&#8217;s important, and what can be done about it. The Representation of Women in Fantasy: What\u2019s the Problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7,9],"class_list":["post-574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-book","tag-fantasy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18500,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574\/revisions\/18500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}