The Power Book and Movie Review Neil ponders” Gender is a shell game.

What is man? Whatever a woman isn’t. What is woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it’s hollow. Look under the shells: It’s not there.”
What does Neil mean by this quote? What events from the book have led him to make this statement? What research from our text/readings can you use to support his view? Hot on the heels of news that Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams are in negotiations to star in a screen adaptation of her successful first novel Disobedience (2006), Naomi Alderman publishes her fourth book, The Power, this week.