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Title: Feminist Fairy Tales by Barbara G. Walker, Laurie Harden ISBN: 0-06-251319-2 Publisher: Harpercollins Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: READ FEARLESS GIRLS, WISE WOMEN AND BELOVED SISTERS INSTEAD
Comment: This book was terrible. The women in it are not anymore powerful than in traditional fairy tales (and they are involved with both attempted rape and domestic violence because they pick the wrong guys--they are sooo powerful because they kick men in the crotch to escape!). Plus, it seems that it is ok to say that men who are ugly are not as good as men who are attractive--basically she is advocating being a sexist as long as it is not against women. She also seems to have missed the fact that lots of "negative" aspects of traditional fairy tales (esp wolves) serve an allegorical purpose and taking them all so literally only makes her new stories very dull and wooden as she tries so hard to correct thses "mistakes". Please, please read Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters by Kathleen Ragan instead--far and above the best book with strong female heroines in a fairy tale/folktale setting!!
Rating: 3
Summary: A Mixed Bag
Comment: Barbara Walker's "Feminist Fairy Tales" is definitely worth reading. The art by Laurie Harden is lovely, and some of the stories are marvelous, in a variety of ways. "The Three Little Pinks" is cute, "The Descent of Shaloma" is mysterious and romantic, and "Ugly and the Beast" is a touching retelling of the old story that Disney mutilated and crammmed down our throats. However, several of the stories really drag, and some of the others are thin veils for Walker's "Female Power GOOD! Patriarchal Oppression BAD!" message. Still, with all its flaws, it's a good book that makes many good points, and a nice change from the "Beautiful submissive women are the only worthwhile ones" message many other fairy tales have. I only wish Walker had focused more on the stories and less on the morals.
Rating: 1
Summary: Good fairy tales gone bad
Comment: This collection of fairy tales proports to support the feminist ideal. This goal might be accomplished, but in the process, what were intended as cautionary and moral fables get turned into boring, monotonous drivel extolling the virtues of strong females. Understand that I am a feminist. I belive in equality, and am going into a still male dominated profession. However, I found this book of fairytales to be uterly wooden, and repititious in their extolling of how strong and wonderful and save the day women can be. In the process, our heroines lose all of the emotional growth they achive in the originals, and are reduced to a female carbon copy hero.
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Title: Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England by Jack Zipes ISBN: 0415902630 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G. Walker ISBN: 006250925X Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 01 November, 1983 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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Title: The Crone : Woman of Age, Wisdom, and Power by Barbara G. Walker ISBN: 0062509349 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 24 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack David Zipes ISBN: 0198605099 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan, Jane Yolen ISBN: 0393320464 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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