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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-08-24 03:21 pm

[ SECRET POST #2426 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2426 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2013-08-27 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know what definition of feminism you are using, but there is tons of legitimate, critical, feminist scholarship of fairy tales (Marina Warner, Maria Tatar, Jack Zipes). To say "feminism" doesn't exist in that "literary culture" is frankly bizarre. If you mean they don't automatically conform to contemporary feminism, that's one thing, but Perrault, for example, was writing out of a salon tradition that among other things advocated against arranged marriages between teenage girls and old men. And even among the source tales, it's worth considering the implications of which choices Disney made among the available sources.

(I don't hate the Disney movies, but I hate that it's become "common knowledge" that all fairy tale heroines are passive, or victimized. That's never been true.)