Donald Haase is chair of the Department of German and Slavic Studies at Wayne State University. He is editor of The Reception of Grimm's Fairy Tales; Responses, Reactions, Revisions (Wayne State University Press, 1993) and general editor of Morvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies.
Fairy Tales and Feminism is a rich and readable book that covers a
broad spectrum in time and space. Several appearances of the fairy
tale occur in a balanced equilibrium, from seventeenth-century
story-tellers to the early twenty-first-century TV shows. You do
not have to be a member of the women's movement to find the
articles exciting and inspiring, but the book does prove that no
critical paradigm has provided so many interesting and influential
insights into the fairy tales as feminism.-- "International
Research Society for Childrens Literature"
Fairy Tales and Feminism is the first book since the 1980s to
present a comprehensive approach toward analyzing the impact of
feminism on all aspects of the literary fairy tale. . . . This book
will have a great reception.--Jack Zipes "University of
Minnesota"
Haase's overview of 'Feminist Fairy-Tale Scholarship' is historical
and critical at once. It also functions as a helpful tool for all
those who wish to understand the development of feminist fairytale
research. Haase highlights the issue of gender and socialization,
female image, women writers and the fairytale, and more. The
extensive bibliography at the end of the book is a great resource
for students and scholars in the field, as it references the
cornerstone of feminist fairytale research."-- "Journal of Folklore
Research"
The essays in Fairy Tales and Feminism do offer some new and
compelling reinterpretations.-- "Journal of American Folklore"
This impressively wide-ranging collection of essays builds on the
growing recognition by feminist critics of the major role that
fairy tales have played in the formation of a global 'literature of
their own.' By resituating texts and national traditions in a
cross-cultural framework, this book valuably foregrounds the
complexity of the fairy tale's pervasive engagement with
gender."--U. C. Knoepflmacher "Princeton University"
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