Fairy Tales and Feminism : New Approaches

Preface vii 1 Feminist Fairy Tale Scholarship 1(36) DONALD HAASE 2 Fertility Control and the Birth of the Modern European Fairy Tale Heroine 37(16) RUTH B. BOTTIGHEIMER 3 On Fairy Tales, Subversion, and Ambiguity: Feminist Approaches to Seventeenth-Century Contes de fées 53(20) LEWIS C. SEIFERT 4 German Fairy Tales: A User's Manual. Translations of Six Frames and Fragments by Romantic Women 73(26) JEANNINE BLACKWELL 5 The Mirror Broken: Women's Autobiography and Fairy Tales 99(14) ELIZABETH WANNING HARRIES 6 Fire and Water: A Journey into the Heart of a Story 113(16) KAY STONE 7 The Fairy Tale Intertext in Iberian and Latin American Women's Writing 129(20) PATRICIA ANNE ODBER DE BAUBETA 8 Babes in the Bosque: Fairy Tales in Twentieth-Century Argentine Women's Writing 149(20) FIONA MACKINTOSH 9 Creolization as Agency in Woman-Centered Folktales 169(10) LEE HARING 10 Genre and Gender in the Cultural Reproduction of India as "Wonder" Tale 179(18) CRISTINA BACCHILEGA 11 Disrupting the Boundaries of Genre and Gender: Postmodernism and the Fairy Tale 197(16) CATHY LYNN PRESTON Bibliography 213(30) Contributors 243(4) Index 247