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I wanted to like this book, but frankly I found nothing particularly thought-provoking in it. The authors claim to provide an unbiased account of gender characterization in fairy tales, as they leave the "gender swapping" to an algorithm of their own design: however, it is clear that they do in fact Leggi tutto

I’m probably stepping into treacherous waters here, so I’ll try to be as clear and concise as I can. But I think that the whole concept of the book is extremely flawed, for the following reasons: 1. Andrew and Nora Lang’s “Fairy Books” series was published between the late 19th and early 20th century Leggi tutto

I was expecting this book to be good, but I wasn’t expecting it to be as thought provoking and challenging as it proved to be, unveiling where gender disparities occur and how much our fairy tales actually might not only reflect them, but perpetuate them today. Much like my experience reading Ursula Leggi tutto

Wordpress Blog | Twitter This was a really fascinating idea, to simply swap the genders of major fairy tale characters, and somehow by doing this the stories felt completely new, despite nothing else being changed. Sleeping Beauty becomes Sleeping Handsome, Thumbelina becomes Thumbelin, and so on. My Leggi tutto

3.5 ⭐

It offered a new perspective sometimes, the authors only swapped the gender, pronouns and names of beloved fairytale characters. You were greeted with these beautiful male princes and strong female princesses but nothing, to me personally, was so iconic or incredible about swapping the genders as I

The 3 star is more due to it being based on a traditional set of short stories but is in some places put in the adult fiction section. For a children's collection it would be a 4 or 5.