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   From: ctysor@email.unc.edu   
      
   	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.   
      
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