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Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World

10 best books like Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World (Kathleen Ragan): Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls, Arab Folktales, The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors, The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World, Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold, Best-Loved Folktales of the World, Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers, Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales, 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

Not One Damsel in Distress: World Folktales for Strong Girls
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0152020470
These thirteen folktales have one thing in common: brainy, brawny, brave heroines--and not one damsel in distress! From Bradamante, the fierce female medieval knight, to Li Chi, the Chinese girl who slays a dreaded serpent and saves her town, these heroines use their cunning, wisdom, and strength...
Arab Folktales
AuthorInea Bushnaq
ISBN0394751795
While containing a broad sampling of folktales from the Arab people, there are a few problems that consistently bothered me about this book. The author, in her commentary, claims that "the true Arab is the desert nomad," an idea which folklorist Dwight Reynolds has said is culturally inaccurate and...
The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors
AuthorTerri Windling
ISBN0312862210
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,...
The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World
AuthorEthel Johnston Phelps
ISBN0805006796
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...
Swan Sister: Fairy Tales Retold
AuthorEllen Datlow
ISBN0689878370
Just as fairy-tale magic can transform a loved one into a swan, the contributors to this book have transformed traditional fairy tales and legends into stories that are completely original, yet still tantalizingly familiar.The stories include a Rapunzel whose most confining prison is her loneliness;...
Best-Loved Folktales of the World
AuthorJoanna Cole
ISBN0385189494
A great compendium of stories with the common hidden theme which you can find if you read them with your heart.

Some favorites:

Maid Lena: This story reveals that the source of our lack of energy and courage is the result of something being “dead at our center,” and the necessity...
Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by Victorian Women Writers
AuthorNina Auerbach
ISBN0226032043
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...
Clever Maids: The Secret History of the Grimm Fairy Tales
AuthorValerie Paradiž
ISBN0465054919
Most people know the stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty, but very few know that behind the Brothers Grimm and their fairy tales stood a network of sisters-and mothers, neighbors, and female friends. In this intimate history, Valerie Paradiz tells the real story of the greatest literary collaboration...
Spinning Straw into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
AuthorJoan Gould
ISBN0812975456
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...
Off with Their Heads!: Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
AuthorMaria Tatar
ISBN0691000883
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...
Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
AuthorCatherine Orenstein
ISBN0465041264
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...
From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers
AuthorMarina Warner
ISBN0374524874
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...
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
AuthorMarie-Louise von Franz
ISBN0877735263
Of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Every people or nation has its own way of experiencing this psychic reality, and...
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales
AuthorKate Bernheimer
ISBN0385486812
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...
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
AuthorJack D. Zipes
ISBN0415902630
This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural...
The Serpent Slayer: And Other Stories of Strong Women
AuthorKatrin Hyman Tchana
ISBN0316387010
I've just read this quickly before sending it to my niece. I'm disappointed that the prose doesn't sparkle. Tchana is a pedestrian stylist and there are certainly better-written folktales. But the content is fabulous. The 'princesses' are bright, curious, patient, physically courageous, thoughtful,...
At the Bottom of the Garden: A Dark History of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Nymphs, and Other Troublesome Things
AuthorDiane Purkiss
ISBN0814766838
At the Bottom of the Garden is a history of fairies from the ancient world to the present. Steeped in folklore and fantasy, it is a rich and diverse account of the part that fairies and fairy stories have played in culture and society.

The pretty pastel world of gauzy-winged things who grant wishes...
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