Suggested Texts for Feminist Interpretations/Discussions of Fairy Tales


compiled by
Stacey Horstmann
Emory University
shorstm@unix.cc.emory.edu

June 1994

Atwood, Margaret. _The Robber Bride_ New York: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday. 
[reworked fairy tale]

Auerbach, Nina. _Forbidden Journeys: Fairy Tales and Fantasies by
Victorian Women Writers_ Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
[analysis/fairy tales]

Bang, Molly. _Picture This: Perception and Composition_ Boston: Little,
Brown, 1991.

Barchers, Suzanne I. _Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the
World_ Englewood, Co.: Libraries Unlimited, 1990.

Bettleheim, Bruno. _The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance
of Fairy Tales_ New York: Vintage Books, 1977. [suggested as a
couterpoint to feminist interpretations]

Bilbija, Ksenija. "`The Youngest Doll' by Rosarro Ferre: On Women, Dolls,
Golems and Cybergs." _Callaloo_ (Summer 1994). [analysis]

Bradshaw, Gillian. _In Winter's Shadow_ New York: New American Library, 1982.
[stories told by women]

Bradley, Marion Zimmer. _The Mists of Avalon_ New York: Knopf, 1982.
[stories told by women]

Carter, Angela. _The Bloody Chamber_ New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
[rewritten fairy tales]

Carter, Angela. _The Old Wives Fairy Tale Book_ New York: Pantheon Books,
1990.

Carter, Angela. _Saints and Strangers_ New York: Viking Press, 1986.

Carter, Angela. _Strange Things Some Tiems Still Happen: Fairy Tales from
Around the World_ Boston: Faber & Faber, 1993.

Carter, Angela. _Wayward Girls and Wicked Women: An Anthology of
Subversive Stories_ [sorry --- don't have the complete cite]

Claffey, Anne; Kavanaugh, Linda; Russell, Sue, eds. _Rapunzel's Revenge:
Fairytales for Feminists_ Dublin: Attic Press, 1985.

Cox, Marian R. _Cinderella: Three Hundred and forty-five Variants of
Cinderella, Catskin, and Cap o'rushing_ London: Published for the
Folklore Society by D. Nutt, 1893. [analysis]

Datlow, Ellen and Windling, Terri, eds., _Snow White, Blood Red_ New
York: Wm. Morris and Company, 1993.

Dundes, Alan _Cinderella: A Folklore Casebook_ New York: Garland
Publishers, 1982

Dworkin, Andrea. _Woman Hating_ New York: Dutton, 1974 [analysis]

Father Gander. _Father Gander's Nursery Rhymes for the Nineteen-nineties:
or, the Alternative Mother Goose_ Cambridge: Oleander, 1990.

Ferre, Rosario. _The Youngest Doll_ lincoln, Ne: University of Nebraska
Press, 1991. [analysis]

Gerstein, Mordecai. _Story of May_ New York: Harper Collins, 1993.

Godwin, Parke _Beloved Exile_ New York: Bantam Books, 1984. [fall of
Camelot as told by Queen Guienevere]

Gordon, Susan. "Powers of the Handless Maiden," in Radner, Joan.  _Feminist
Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture_ Urbana, Il: University of Illinois
Press, 1993. [analysis]

Grahn, Judy. _The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy
Grahn, 1964-1977_ New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980 (See specifically
the poem "detroit") [writing by women]

Jackson, Ellen B. _Cinder Edna_ New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1994.

Jordan, Elaine [on Angela Carter]

Karr, Phyllis Ann. _The Idylls of the Queen_ New York: Ace Books, 1982.
[murder at Camelot as told by Sir Kay in which women characters have
their say]

Kollenschlag, Madonna. _Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbye: Breaking the Spell
of Feminine Myths and Models_ San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988. [analysis]

Lieberman, Marcia R. "Some Day My Prince Will Come: Female Acculturatin
Through the Fairy Tale," _College English_ [don't know the year]: 383-395.

Manning-Sanders, Ruth. _The Book of Kings and Queens_ London: Methuen,
1977. [newly told fairy tales ... also has written other books with
similar titles]

McKinley, Robin. _Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast_ New York:
Harper and Row, 1978. [retelling of fairy tale]

McKinley, Robin _Deerskin_ New York: Ace Books, 1993. [retelling]

McLeon, Susan H. and Soven, Margot _Writing Across the Curriculum: A
Guide to Developing Programs_ Newberry Park, Ca:  [don't know publisher],
1988.

Morressy, John. _A Voice for Princess_ New York: Ace Fantasy Books, 1986.

Morressy, John. _The Questing of Kedrigen_ New York: Ace Books, 1987.

Muller, Robin. _Tatterhood_ Richmond Hill, Ont: North Winds Press, 1984.
[for children]

Munsch, Robert. _The Paperbag Princess_ [for children]

Namjoshi, Sunito. _Feminist Fables_ London: Sheba Feminist Publishers, 1981.

Poniatowska, Elena. "A Little Fairy Tale" [short story]

Rooth, Anna Brigitta. _The Cinderella Cycle_ (Folklore Fellow
Communications) Lund: 1951.

Ross, T. _Lon Po Po_ [retelling]

Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, ed. _Amazons II_ [see "the Little Robber Girl"]

Sexton, Anne _Transformations_ Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.

Stone, Kay. "Burning Brightly: New Light From an Old Tale," from Radner,
Joan.  _Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture_ Urbana, Il:
University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Stone, Kay F. "Misuse of Enchantment," in Jordan, Rosan and Kalcik,
Susan, eds., _Women's Folklor/Women's Culture_ Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. [analysis]

Stone, Kay F. "Feminist Approaches to the Interpretations of the Fairy
Tales," in Bottigheimer, Ruth B. _Fairy Tales and Society: Illusion,
Allusion, and Paradigm_ Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press,
1986. [analysis]

Stone, Kay F. "New Light from an Old Tale," in Radner, Joa, ed., _Feminist
Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture_ Urbana, Il: University of
Illinois Press, 1993.

Stone, Kay F., "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us," in Farrer, Claire,
_Women and Folklore_ Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975.

Stone, Kay F. "Three Transformations of Snow White," in McGlatherty, J.,
ed., _The Brothers Grimm and the Folktale_ Urbana, Il: University of
Illinois Press, 1988.

Tatar, Maria. _Off With Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of
Childhood_ Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. [analysis]

Tatar, Maria. _The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales_ Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1987.

Van Franz, Marie. _The Feminine Element in Fairy Tales_ [do not have the
complete cite]

Walker, Barbara G. _The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets_ New
York: Harper and Row, 1985.

Warner, Marina. _Cinema and the Realms of Enchantment: Lectures, Sermons
and Essays_ London: British Film Institute, 1993. [analysis]

Willard, Barbara and Moser, Barry. [On Beauty and the Beast]

Yolen, Jane _Sleeping Ugly_ New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1981.
[retelling]

Young, Ed. _Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China_ New York:
Scholastic Inc. ,1989.

Zipes, Jack. _Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and
Fairy Tales_ Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. [analysis]

Zipes, Jack. _Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales
in North America and England_ New York: Methuen/Routledge, 1986.
[analysis and new fairy tales]

Zipes, Jack. _The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood:
Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context_ South Hackey, Ma: Bergin
and Garvey Publishers, 1983. [analysis]

Zipes, Jack. _Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre
for Children and the Process of Civilization_ New York:
Methuen/Routledge, 1987. [analysis]