The Wicked Little Secret Behind The New Feminist Heroes

Next week, Netflix is dropping a prestige miniseries, “East of Eden,” by Zoe Kazan, adapting John Steinbeck’s magnum opus of the same name and casting the novel’s antagonist, Cathy Ames, as the protagonist. In November, the streaming giant will release an animated musical, “Steps,” which argues that the cruel stepsisters in Cinderella are actually the ...