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ZIN Product Number: 10009197
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Harper San Francisco
ISBN: 0062513206
Release Date: Jan 5, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is "a collection of 28 fairy tales in which women are the adventurous protagonists. . . . Most of the tales are retellings of . . . classic fairy tales from a feminist perspective, reflected in titles such as 'Gorga and the Dragon,' 'Ugly and the Beast,' 'Cinder-Helle,' and 'The Empress's New Clothes,' while others are based on Greek myths or are Walker's own tales." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
These twenty-eight imaginatively playful and provoking stories are rich with real-life morals about selfishness, strength, fairness, and survival, told with a large helping of whimsy. Cinder-Helle (Cinderella), Snow Night (Snow White), The Littlest Mermaid (The Little Mermaid), and Ala Dean (Aladdin), among others, reinvent their fairy-tale lives into admirable archetypal role models for emerging and seasoned feminists alike. Some of these delightful stories surprisingly twist well-known fairy tales, biblical stories, Greek and Teutonic myths, while others emerge straight from Barbara Walker's own rich imagination. "The Littlest Mermaid" illustrates the triumphant quest of the "littlest mermaid" to follow her own dreams and to find relief from suffering. In this story the prince is sympathetic and kind, the princesses fiercely independent, and the women of the kingdom harvest inspiring faith in themselves. "Cinder-Helle," born to a priestess of the Goddess of the Underworld, witnesses the death of Goddess worship and (with the help of the mother-spirit) revives temples of the Goddess when she becomes the prince's beloved. "Barbidol" is the perfect woman-doll who scorns imperfect humans and tragically falls in love with the militia king, Gijo, only then to discover the truth about herself and the life she chooses.
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Perfect for the feminine hero lover
-- Anna Nicholette, a Fashion Designer, July 31, 2001
| |  | | | | Introduction | | | The She-Wolf | 1 | | Princess Questa | 7 | | Snow Night | 19 | | Gorga and the Dragon | 27 | | The Frog Princess | 35 | | Ugly and the Beast | 47 | | Thomas Rhymer | 55 | | Jill and the Beanroot | 63 | | Barbidol | 71 | | Sir Vivor and the Holy Cauldron | 79 | | Ala Dean and the Wonderful Lamp | 91 | | The Descent of Shaloma | 101 | | The Weaver | 111 | | The Sea Witch | 121 | | Prince Gimme and the Fairy of the Forest | 129 | | The Oracle | 141 | | Lily and Rose | 149 | | The Gargoyle | 157 | | Little White Riding Hood | 165 | | How the Sexes Were Separated | 171 | | The Littlest Mermaid | 177 | | Cinder-Helle | 189 | | How Winter Came to the World | 197 | | The Empress's New Clothes | 209 | | The Three Little Pinks | 217 | | Fairy Gold | 225 | | How the Gods Met Their End | 233 | | The White God | 239 |
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Women, Social life and customs, Fiction, Adaptations, Fairy tales, Feminism, Man-woman relationships, Women, Social life and customs, Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Fairy tales, Fiction - General, Short Stories (single author), Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science
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