It was a primary and an election fraught with conversation about gender, feminism, race and equality.

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This preoccupation with physical stature, which was punctuated so perfectly by steroid scandals in pro sports, is thought by many to have been a reaction to hird-wave feminism, one of the most influential gender movements in history.

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However, if Feminism is seen as a collective movement to overturn unjust gender relations for all women, then Jane, like Meg, is none of that.

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If Feminism is seen as the social success of individual women, particularly those who do so without challenging accepted gender relations, then Jane Eyre is that.

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