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| | Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked:
Sex,Morality,and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale
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| | by Catherine Orenstein
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ZIN Product Number: 10123949
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465041256
Release Date: Jan 7, 2002
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""Little Red Riding Hood" is perhaps the best known fairy tale of all time. Featuring a cross-dressing wolf and his hapless victim, this strange tale has been passed from generation to generation, printed in thousands of storybooks and told in virtually every language. But where did the story of the girl, her grandmother and their cruel fate come from? And why does it continue to grip us?" In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein unravels the complex sexual politics, moral ambiguities and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to her grandmother's house. From the werewolf trials of France's old regime to twentieth century feminists and gender-benders, Orenstein traces the many lives the tale has lived and explores how, from the nursery on, fairy tales shape and reflect our view of the world.
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In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Catherine Orenstein traces the tale's evolution from oral tradition to literary classic, and on through various permutations in film and television and on the Internet. Orenstein introduces each chapter with a variant of the tale, ranging from the didactic Grimm version popular at bedtime to a bawdy sexploit shared in cyberspace. The 10 adaptations provide rich fodder for cultural and historical analysis, as well as excellent means for exploring the dynamic social meaning of fairy tales. —Philadelphia Inquirer
The cannibalistic, scatological stripper is not exactly Disney material, but she's believed to be the original incarnation of Little Red Riding Hood before she would undergo hundreds of revisions to become the G-rated heroine of our collective memory. Catherine Orenstein's revelatory new book, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, traces the tale's makeovers and what they reveal about each culture that produced them. —Newsweek
Ms. Orenstein conveys both the stability of the tale's basic elements -- a girl, a beast, a meeting in the woods -- and their flexibility, which has allowed "Little Red Riding Hood" to survive for so long. Readers may end up asking what the story means to them. I myself had always read it as a tale of familial aggression: devouring love cloaked beneath ruffles of domesticity. As a child, I wasn't surprised one bit when grandma bared her fangs. Of course, that's about me (and my grandmother). But as Ms. Orenstein shows, fairy tales always are. —The Wall Street Journal
The wolf's symbolic transvestitism is just one of many wonderfully irreverent yet perfectly logical conclusions Catherine Orenstein makes in Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked. The book is a witty journey through the many versions of "Little Red Riding Hood," through which we can see the dazzling importance of the fairy tale to our cultural and sexual identity. From Perrault's "Le petit chaperon rouge," a seventeenth-century lesson in the importance of chastity of young women, to Tex Avery's wartime cartoons about "Wolfie," perpetually aroused over a stripper in red, and even including "The Punishment of Red Riding Hood," a S & M lesbian porno loosely following the ancient plot, Orenstein reveals what we should have known all along: the fairy tales of our youth shape who we are today. This is true both individually and on a cultural scale. —New City Chicago
| |  | | | | List of Illustrations | | | Introduction: Cloaking the Heroine | 1 | | I | Little Red Riding Hood: To Be Chaste - or Chased? | 17 | | II | Little Red Cap: To Walk the Straight Path | 39 | | III | The Grandmother's Tale: To Come of Age | 63 | | IV | Stubbe Peeter, Werewolf: A True Story | 85 | | V | Red Hot Riding Hood: A Babe in the Woods | 107 | | VI | The Waiting Wolf: In the Belly of the Beast | 131 | | VII | The Company of Wolves: She-Wolf or Bitch? | 155 | | VIII | Red Riding Hood Redux: The Cross-Dressing Wolf | 177 | | IX | The Punishment of Red Riding Hood: Fairy-Tale Fetish | 205 | | X | Freeway: A Ride in the Hood | 219 | | Epilogue: Under the Cloak | 239 | | Notes | 247 | | Bibliography | 263 | | Sources | 271 | | Acknowledgments | 275 | | Index | 279 |
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