I've noticed in some of the old children stories, the authors had some sort of problem of girls growing up and exploring their sexuality. They seemed to think that grown matured woman only care about make-up, lingerie, perfumes and worldliness.
If you read the CS Lewis's final Narnia Chronicles book, The Last Battle, Susan is excluded because she liked lipstick, nylons and invitations. Did Lewis wanted all his characters to remain childlike innocent and never experience love or sexuality? Aren't those things suppose to a sign of Susan maturing?
I've even read The Problem of Susan by Neil Gaiman in Fragile Things, it was scary the way Susan was treated. I even read the story Lost Girls by Alan Moore, very graphic and erotic but good and more realistic.
Its almost like these children writers were afraid of sexuality and growing up, why? and I know it was written in a different time but why so afraid of maturing?
If you read the CS Lewis's final Narnia Chronicles book, The Last Battle, Susan is excluded because she liked lipstick, nylons and invitations. Did Lewis wanted all his characters to remain childlike innocent and never experience love or sexuality? Aren't those things suppose to a sign of Susan maturing?
I've even read The Problem of Susan by Neil Gaiman in Fragile Things, it was scary the way Susan was treated. I even read the story Lost Girls by Alan Moore, very graphic and erotic but good and more realistic.
Its almost like these children writers were afraid of sexuality and growing up, why? and I know it was written in a different time but why so afraid of maturing?