Good article on the artificial taxonomy of books into genres. I don't really get the fascination he has with the idea that urban fantasy is mostly about gender and power. Although, to be fair, of the urban fantasy I have read lately (Jim Butcher, Richard Kadrey, Wen Spencer) the hero is male. Rachel Caine's Weather Warden (female protagonist) series was easy to put down half-way through the second book. I think I put it down for some of the same reasons that Abraham has identified as genre-defining.
I think — as I’ve said elsewhere — that urban fantasy is a genre sitting on top of a great big huge cultural discomfort about women and power.
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