Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches
In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. By exposing the role of fairy tales in the cultural struggle over gender, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked a debate that would change the way society thinks about fairy tales and the words "happily ever after." Now, after three decades of provocative criticism and controversy, this book reevaluates the feminist critique of fairy tales.\ The eleven...
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Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.
1Feminist fairy-tale scholarship12Fertility control and the birth of the modern European fairy-tale heroine373On fairy tales, subversion, and ambiguity : feminist approaches to seventeenth-century Contes de fees534German fairy tales : a user's manual : translations of six frames and fragments by Romantic women735The mirror broken : women's autobiography and fairy tales996Fire and water : a journey into the heart of a story1137The fairy-tale intertext in Iberian and Latin American women's writing1298Babes in the Bosque : fairy tales in twentieth-century Argentine women's writing1499Creolization as agency in woman-centered folktales16910Genre and gender in the cultural reproduction of India as "wonder" tale17911Disrupting the boundaries of genre and gender : postmodernism and the fairy tale197
