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.
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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 essays within Fairy Tales and Feminism challenge and rethink conventional wisdom about the fairy-tale heroine and offer new insights into the tales produced by female writers and storytellers. Resisting a one-dimensional view of the woman-centered fairy tale, each essay reveals ambiguities in female-authored tales and the remarkable potential of classical tales to elicit unexpected responses from women. Exploring new texts and contexts, Fairy Tales and Feminism reaches out beyond the national and cultural boundaries that have limited our understanding of the fairy tale. The authors reconsider the fairy tale in French, German, and Anglo-American contexts and also engage African, Indian Ocean, Iberian, Latin American, Indo-Anglian, and South Asian diasporic texts. Also considered within this volume is how film, television, advertising, and the Internet test the fairy tale’s boundaries and its traditional authority in defining gender.
From the Middle Ages to the postmodern age—from the French fabliau to Hollywood’s Ever After and television’s Who Wants to Marry a Millionaire?—the essays assembled here cover a broad range of topics that map new territory for fairy-tale studies. Framed by a critical survey of feminist fairy-tale scholarship and an extensive bibliography—the most comprehensive listing of women-centered fairy-tale research ever assembled—Fairy Tales and Feminism is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the intersection of fairy tales and feminism.
About the Author
Donald Haase is chair of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at Wayne State University. He is editor of The Reception of Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions (Wayne State University Press, 1993) and general editor of Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.
Contributors: Cristina Bacchilega, Jeannine Blackwell, Ruth B. Bottigheimer, Donald Haase, Lee Haring, Elizabeth Wanning Harries, Fiona Mackintosh, Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta, Cathy Lynn Preston, Lewis C. Seifert, and Kay Stone
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I was looking for revised fairy tales with a feminist twist - my subject for an English paper.
While this didn't have very many examples, it did touch on a few topics I needed (women heroines, role-reversal, insights into themes, etc) I was expecting it to be a tedious read, but it was surprised me. It's changed the way I see fairy tales. The book itself is well-written, in a manner that flows logically from chapter to chapter, with a complete bibliography (helpful for further research & quotations)
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