Patterns of Paper Monsters

Book Review: Patterns Of Paper Monsters by Emma Rathbone: When Women Do Dudes

Abigail Tarttelin | Posted 30.11.2011 | UK Entertainment
Abigail Tarttelin

Having been interviewed on the authorship of a book about a teenage boy, I notice no-one fails to ask why I wrote from a male perspective. I usually mention that much of the world's cultural output reinforces the male voice - a recent survey of British television found that two thirds of the characters in fictional works were male.