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Valerie Estelle Frankel

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Valerie Estelle Frankel is the author of 88 books on pop culture, including Doctor Who - The What, Where, and How; The Villain's Journey, History, Pop Culture, and Hidden Meanings in Hamilton; and How Game of Thrones Will End. Many of her books focus on women’s roles in fiction, from her heroine’s journey guides From Girl to Goddess and Superheroines and the Epic Journey to books like Star Wars Meets the Eras of Feminism and Fourth Wave Feminism in Science Fiction and Fantasy. She's editing a series on Jewish Science Fiction for Rowman & Littlefield. Once a lecturer at San Jose State University, she now teaches at Mission College and is a frequent speaker at conferences. Come explore her research at www.vefrankel.com. ...more

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“A pun is its own reword.”
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“Claire, who recreates herself as a doctor in 1743, is the demonstration of the fact that the production of knowledge must be understood as contextualized. As postmodernity and postcolonialism argue, there is no any standard, universal truth but rather contingent political concerns and contexts in which truths are produced. What has been science in the past is now superstition, but our science can be the superstition of tomorrow.”
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Brandon Berntson Greetings, Valerie! Thanks for friending. I hope the writing is going well.


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