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Article: Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches
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- Journal of American Folklore
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches. Ed. Donald Haase. (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2004. Pp. xiv + 268, illustrations, index, references cited.)
Perhaps because of its wide appeal across the humanities and social sciences, the fairy tale has been the subject of more feminist critiques than any other genre of folklore. Beginning in the 1970s with the publication of Alison Lurie's essay "Fairy Tale Liberation" (The New York Review of Books 15(11): 42-4, 1970) and Marcia R. Lieberman's spirited response, "`Some Day My Prince Will Come': Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale" (College English 34(3): 383-95, 1972), scholars from a variety of disciplines, including but not ...