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We Said Feminist Fairy Tales, Not Fractured Fairy Tales!
The Construction of the Feminist Fairy Tale: Female Agency over Role Reversal
Article by: Leslee Farish Kuykendal and Brian W. Sturm
Interesting Quotes
- "In this capacity, fairy tales can be powerful cultural agents, telling the child who reads them how they should behave with regard to gender."
- " Fairy tales define women as beautiful objects, powerless to alter the events in their lives, while fairy tale men are powerful agents of their own destiny."
- "Similar studies found similar results, with the sentiment being that while children admired strong female protagonists, these were not the characters they wished to emulate."
To Clear Up Some Confusion...
Donna Jo Napoli
Author of The Magic Circle and Beast. One feminist author who has recreated feminist fairy tales instead of fractured ones.
Paper Bag Princess
"...rewritten folktales and fairy tales claiming to be
“feminist” often simply reversed the normal gender stereotypes"
Andrea Dworkin
"It tells us that the happy ending is when we are ended,
when we live without our lives, or not at all."
Let's Talk About It
- Do you believe fairy tales teach women to stand underneath men?
- How have fairy tales impacted your childhood?
- If you were/are a feminist, how would you fix this "battle"?