ALICE SHRUGGED December 18, 2008
Absolutely without a doubt, in terms of entertainment — and of
the underlying changes in a civilization that it both engenders and
comes to reflect — we find ourselves living in the age of the heroic
female.
I’m not entirely sure when it all began. Ayn Rand clearly had more
than a little to do with it, beginning in 1936 with Kira Argounova in
her novel _We the Living_ and continuing in 1943 with Dominique
Francon in _The Fountainhead_ and in 1957 with Dagny Taggart in _Atlas
Shrugged_.
Rand’s female …