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    Carolyn S Tysor  wrote:   
      
   >         I'm writing about cultural reproduction in Stephenson's The   
   > Diamond Age.   
   > I'm trying to make the argument that the primer replaced Nell's cultural   
   > education by causing the way she thought about and responded to her   
   > environment to be radically different from the rest of her community.  I'm   
   > also trying to weave in the necessity of the author of cultural   
   > reproduction being female, or at least having a female component.  That's   
   > how I'm working Miranda, the ractor/surrogate mother figure in, anyway.  I   
   > want to say because it's reproduction, it must have a female author.   
   >         I'm really excited about this, because I've never had the   
   > opportunity to analyze literature like this academically, and I think it   
   > should occupy a much larger portion of the critical literature than it   
   > currently does.   
      
   post it when you're done if you want. We'd read it.   
      
      
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