I found Reading Lolita in Tehran fascinating and confusing. Western culture has colonized almost every corner of the world, and in so many places that's a bad thing, a damaging thing. And here are these women desiring it and fighting for it, as a path to empowerment. For them, the colonizers are the extremist men of their own country, and the disputed territory their own female bodies and minds. A very twisty problem. Can't wait to hear your reaction.

It's also hooking up with thoughts I've been having about fandom as post-colonial space. I.e., how do you (we, women) write about ourselves and things we care about when all the words we have come preloaded with meanings/contexts/allusions/assumptions developed in and by the kyriarchy? How, for eg., can one write a story about robots without, also and perforce, writing about Issac bloody Asimov?