Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
10 best books like Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (Jack D. Zipes): Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer, Feminist Fairy Tales, The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, Black Thorn, White Rose, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
| Author | Tanith Lee |
| ISBN | 0879977906 |
How would it be if Snow White were the real villain & the wicked queen just a sadly maligned innocent? What if awakening the Sleeping Beauty should be the mistake of a lifetime--of several lifetimes? What if the famous folk tales were retold with an eye to more horrific possibilities?
Only...
| Author | Barbara G. Walker |
| ISBN | 0062513206 |
This book was a deeply, deeply unpleasant read.
I love fairy tale retelling anthologies, particularly ones that cover a wide variety of cultures and history. But these stories were all dull as drainwater or or very offensive. Each one read like a parody, like fairy tales deliberately written...
| Author | Terri Windling |
| ISBN | 0312862210 |
I'm a big fan of Terri Windling, and make an effort to seek out her anthologies. Thus, I got this one. I'd heard rave reviews of it - people saying "This is the one that made a difference in my life!"
I was a bit quizzical about that, because for me, that was 'Bordertown.' And for me, it remains Bordertown,...
| Author | Ellen Datlow |
| ISBN | 0809557754 |
The award-winning editors of Snow White, Blood Red return us to distinctly adult realms of myth and the fantastic -- with 18 wondrous works that cloak the magical fictions we heard at grandma's knee in mantles of darkness and dread. From Roger Zelansky's delightful tale of Death's disobedient godson...
| Author | Ethel Johnston Phelps |
| ISBN | 0805006796 |
The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, courageous and smart. This type of heroine is not easily...
| Author | Nina Auerbach |
| ISBN | 0226032043 |
As these eleven dark and wild stories demonstrate, fairy tales by Victorian women constitute a distinct literary tradition, one startlingly subversive of the society that fostered it. From Anne Thackeray Ritchie's adaptations of "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood" to Christina Rossetti's unsettling...
| Author | Joan Gould |
| ISBN | 0812975456 |
What’s your favorite fairy tale? Whether it’s “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Hansel and Gretel,” or another story, your answer reveals something significant about you, your experiences, and your soul. In this penetrating book, Joan Gould brings to the surface the hidden...
| Author | Maria Tatar |
| ISBN | 0691000883 |
When fairy tales moved from workrooms, taverns, and the fireside into the nursery, they not only lost much of their irreverent, earthy humor but were also deprived of their contestatory stance to official culture. Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing...
| Author | Catherine Orenstein |
| ISBN | 0465041264 |
In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house, and how, from the nursery on, fairy tales influence our view of the...
| Author | Marina Warner |
| ISBN | 0374524874 |
In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers...
| Author | Sheldon Cashdan |
| ISBN | 0465008968 |
In The Witch Must Die, Sheldon Cashdan explores how fairy tales help children deal with psychological conflicts by projecting their own internal struggles between good and evil onto the battles enacted by the characters in the stories. Not since Bettelheim's The Uses of Enchantment has the underlying...
| Author | Kate Bernheimer |
| ISBN | 0385486812 |
New edition (revised and expanded) available 8/13/02.
Fairy tales are one of the most enduring forms of literature, their plots retold and characters reimagined for centuries. In this elegant and thought-provoking collection of original essays, Kate Bernheimer brings together twenty-eight...
| Author | Denise Little |
| ISBN | 0886778352 |
How would Little Red Riding Hood's story play if we heard it from the viewpoint of the wolf, and what's the real scuttlebutt about the seven dwarves? Whether they're told to us as bedtime treats or viewed as Disney movies, fairy tales fuel our imagination. Now fantasy's finest indulge themselves and...
| Author | Kathleen Ragan |
| ISBN | 0393320464 |
Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and...
Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood
| Author | Jane Yolen |
| ISBN | 0874835917 |
Subtitled "Fantasy, Faerie, and Folklore in the Literature of Childhood," this small book of essays was first my position papers for the EdD I never quite got. Originally published in hardcover by Philomel and then brought out a few years later in a trade paperback, this book of essays has become well...
