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Pixerina Witcherina (review)

Marvels & Tales, 2003

... representations of little girls and elderly women by Meghan Boody and Margi Geerlinks, a Bosc... more

After the Ball Is Over: Bringing Cinderella Home

Cultural Analysis, 2000

Cinderella, a popular children's story, features a woman of ideal proportions elevated to myt... more Cinderella, a popular children's story, features a woman of ideal proportions elevated to myth. This is not the ubiquitous folktale's nature but derives from mistranslation and application. The contemporary Cinderella's most memorable and crucial features--glass slipper and ugly sisters--have little original relevance; now magic, not maturity, is lauded. Feminist phenomenology reveals Cinderella as a primer for moral and gender role conventions, leeched of race, gender and class. Sub-textual messages train girls in anti social behaviors and antipathetic family relations. Despite the almost thoroughly female content of Cinderella, the end-result of this instruction is the eventual absence of female agency and identity. The Cinderella Myth The tale of Cinderella is encoded as a text of patriarchal moral instruction in which a sense of female agency will always by definition be absent. In this folk tale, which is also a fairytale, female character is positioned in terms of ...

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Pixerina Witcherina (review

... representations of little girls and elderly women by Meghan Boody and Margi Geerlinks, a Bosc... more

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