Feminist Fables

By Suniti Namjoshi

Book Overview

A reworking of fairy tales from the East and West.

There was once a man who thought he could do anything, even be a woman. So he acquired a baby, changed its diapers and fed the damn thing three times a night. He did all the housework, was deferential to men, and got worn out. But he had a brother, Jack Cleverfellow, who hired a wife and got it all done.

Suniti Namjoshi is elegant and subversive in creating new patterns of meaning through stories that are simultaneously spare and full of richness. An ingenious reworking of fairy tales from East and West.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1875559191
• ISBN13: 9781875559190
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Length: 133 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Empowering Enchantment

This wonderful little book is full of brief retellings of traditional fables that empower and educate with non-sexist values. Several of the tales also gave me a good laugh. All in all, it's more light than heavy. This book is as appropriate for reading to children as it is for grown-ups.