River Tam and the Educated Woman

[arresi]

It has occurred to me that River Tam (Firefly) is actually a fairly clever remix of Victorian ideas about women's education.

Think about it: A young girl (River Tam) insists on going to a serious school (the Academy, where she studies graduate physics, among other things, according to the R. Tam Sessions) and competing against boys (she says that a

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[arresi]

Like I said - Whedon reworks it so that not treating as a human and an equal citizen are the crimes.