Some were written in slang and in dialect, which made them a little harder to get through (although this wasn’t a problem). The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Cuentos de hadas protagonizados por mujeres (tontas, listas, sagaces, niñas, jóvenes, viejas, reinas, princesas, sirvientas y muchas más) y divididos por tema, de todas partes del mundo (ojo en particular con los cuentos inuit, muy rupturistas en cuanto a temas de género).

Whereupon the old woman proceeded to pull sea scorpions out of her vagina, one after another, until she fell over dead. No sé, le dicen que su casa está hechizada y que tiene que desollar a su gato y comerse la piel para desencantarla, y se lo cree. If you want to marry a prince, you need to be one of four things: a) pretty, b) smart, c) pretty and smart, or d) grown from a plant.These neglected works, as well as her controversial television documentary, The Holy Family Album, are discussed in Charlotte Crofts' book, Anagrams of Desire (2003). I think this is a good book to keep close to bed, in case you don't really feel like reading anything too long or engaging. Quite a few young ladies forget their shoes nearby a handsome prince, many girls find themselves forced to spin straw into gold (and therefore require some help from a little imp or an old hag), and evil stepmothers are to find everywhere.

Angela reivindica, Angela exige con la misma fuerza y determinación con la que trabajó en esta recopilación hasta los últimos días de su vida, ingresada en el hospital. Es una recopilación de cuentos populares de diversas partes del mundo, principalmente de fuera de Europa, porque los de aquí ya nos los conocemos de sobra.Other than acting as a concluding statement, can ‘It served the little b***h right, too’ – from the North American story ‘The Good Girl and the Ornery Girl’ – really be thought to be serving the same purpose as ‘Mulberry, mulberry/So ends my story. Que yo y otras muchas mujeres vayamos buscando heroínas de cuentos de hadas en los libros es otra versión del mismo proceso: deseo validar mi reivindicación a poseer una parte equitativa del futuro, y expreso para ello la exigencia de que me concedan la parte del pasado que me corresponde».

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Probably best as a coffee table book for the occasional pickup and journey into the land of the strange. Children are roasted in oven and fed into their own unsuspecting fathers by, normally, their stepmothers. The only exception is the set of short Inuit stories scattered throughout, which have such a distinct and unique voice that their independent heritage is quite obvious. But that still leaves a pretty huge selection, and you would think, for instance, that a curator might include a few examples of the Cinderella story and leave out the rest.A similar essence is found in characters throughout the book in stories such as ‘The Baba Yaga’, ‘Vasilisa the Priest’s Daughter’ and ‘The Woman Who Married her Son’s Wife’. She wrote a fairly scholarly introduction to it, acknowledging colonial bias, etc, etc, and commenting on the content. She was actively involved in both film adaptations, her screenplays are published in the collected dramatic writings, The Curious Room, together with her radio scripts, a libretto for an opera of Virginia Wolf's Orlando, an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. I've been reading this one on and off since last year and to be honest I've sort of had a love/hate relationship with this one.

Hay para todos los gustos: tildes que faltan, cambio de género de personajes de un párrafo a otro, palabras omitidas (ejemplo: "cogió la y se la dio a su hermano"). This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies.I’m… probably going to read that again before the book club meeting to see if I want to discuss anything from that angle. It is lovely to have the new edition but it would be nice if the information about the book made it clear that it is a re-issue. i feel like an important thing to know about me is that my parents' copy of this book introduced me to sex at seven-ish years old, by way of stories abt a woman bringing carved blubber to life by rubbing it on her genitals and a mother-in-law seducing her daughter-in-law with her seal bone strap-on ? A few of the stories are incredibly short, as in a mere few lines, but the preservation of any traditional tale, no matter how brief, is a thing to be celebrated. I think it's a stretch to imagine that trope is about teaching children to ask for help when the lesson that you shouldn't abuse your children, even if you are not their biological parent, is so much more obvious.