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Author: Batya Ungar-Sargon

Batya Ungar-Sargon is a Brooklyn based freelancer and a PhD candidate. Her work has appeared in City Limits, The Forward, Tablet, and Eighteenth Century Novel. She teaches at CUNY and tweets at @bungarsargon.
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01/28/2013

1750 Shades of Grey

50 Shades of Grey wasn’t the first — fiction has asked us to willingly relinquish autonomy since the 18th century.

by Batya Ungar-Sargon

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