Feminist Fairy Tales

by Barbara G. Walker

Book Overview

Prominent feminist author Barbara Walker has revamped, retold, and infused with life some of your favorite classic fairy tales. No longer are women submissive, helpless creatures in need of redemption through the princely male Instead they are vibrantly alive, strong women who take fate into their own hands.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062513206
• ISBN13: 9780062513205
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Feminist Fairy Tales

A great book for women. Shows that the female high of society is not as docile or dominated as the male side would have you believe. Great book for girls with low self esteem. Stop reading them fairy tales that encourage submissive behavior. Women have as much of an active role and probably more than the men do. Wise women have known this throughout time, but to often the information is not passed down from generation to generation. This book shows how it can be.

Feminist Fairy Tales

It is nice book and we have it in Korea too. It's fair Thank you This review was written by an 8th grade Korean female student. She told me about this book and found it very interesting from a girls point of view.

excellent and pleasent surprise

This book is not the basic fairy tale written from an exclusivly "girl power" viewpoint. Yes, it has the heroines rescuing the prince, or rescuing themselves when they get bored waiting for the prince, but it is also about female spirtuality, goddess religion, and filled with folklore and legends that have long since been lost to the general public.