As such, it will be read by readers who share feminist views of the world as a place structured by gender inequality and discrimination against women.
That long preserv'd Virginity:...Theories of resistant reading have been identified in a number of historic approaches to the question of interpretation.
[1] Roger Chartier has argued that reading is something that 'only rarely leaves traces, that is scattered in an infinity of singular acts, and that easily shakes off all constraints.
Bill Bell, for example, has discovered a range of resistant hermeneutic strategies across nineteenth-century communities, from emigrants and convicts to polar explorers and troops in the First World War.
It is worth considering whether diegetic border crossing always strengthens the potential for resistant reading (as might seem intuitively likely, given that readers are moving in and out of the story), or whether on some occasions it might trigger the reverse effect.