Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-242) and index.
Contents
Feminist fairy-tale scholarship / Donald Haase -- Fertility control and the birth of the modern European fairy-tale heroine / Ruth B. Bottigheimer -- On fairy tales, subversion, and ambiguity : feminist approaches to seventeenth-century contes de fees / Lewis C. Seifert -- German fairy tales : a user's manual : translations of six frames and fragments by romantic women / Jeannine Blackwell -- The mirror broken : women's autobiography and fairy tales / Elizabeth Wanning Harries -- Fire and water : a journey into the heart of a story / Kay Stone -- The fairy-tale intertext in Iberian and Latin American women's writing / Patricia Anne Odber de Baubeta -- Babes in the bosque : fairy tales in twentieth-century Argentine women's writing / Fiona Mackintosh -- Creolization as agency in woman-centered folktales / Lee Haring -- Genre and gender in the cultural reproduction of India as "wonder" tale / Cristina Bacchilega -- Disrupting the boundaries of genre and gender : postmodernism and the fairy tale / Cathy Lynn Preston.