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Popular Culture Review
For first generation Nancy Drew readers, Carolyn Keene and Nancy Drew
were and are especially powerful, inspirational role models. Perhaps they, in
some sense, needed the hope that these two powerful women figures, albeit
problematically fictional, provided even with the sacrifice that loses the labor of
production to deny other women their agency if not their existence, such as
Mildred Wirt Benson. If not the recognition of labor revealed in the modes of
syndicate production, surely the sacrifice of a more subvers