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Chapters 2 and 3 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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Gene Wolf's Misogyny

Gene Wolf has been critiqued for having a very conservative view of women. "I would stop short of saying Wolf himself is a raging misogynist or anything along those lines," she says. The reason that Severean is being written in this particularly misogynist mode is that Wolf is not scared of letting us know that this is a flawed character, the writer adds.

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