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Title	:	Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
Author	:	Jack D. Zipes
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 270 pages
Published	:	November 15th 1986 by Routledge (first published January 1st 1986)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Feminism. Short Stories. Fiction. Folklore. Fairy Tale Retellings

Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England Paperback | Pages: 270 pages

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This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural change since the 1960s in area of gender roles, socialization and education. It includes selected works from such writers as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Jay Williams, and critical essays from Marcia Lieberman and Sandra Gilbert.

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Original Title:	Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England
ISBN:	0415902630 (ISBN13: 9780415902632)
Edition Language:	English

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This is a great combination of new stories and poignant criticism of the old stories.

In three sections (following a lengthy introduction), editor Zipes compiles three revised, purportedly feminist takes on traditional fairy tales: Feminist Fairy Tales for Young (and Old) Readers and for Old (and Young) Readers, 17 modern fairy tales from authors like Tanith Lee, Jane Yolen, and Anne Sexton among others, and four pieces of feminist literary criticism on fairy tales. That a work purports to be feminist, however, does not necessarily make it so. Or, rather, a work can claim to be

I cringe when I see the title "feminist fairy tales". This book transcends this type of narrow minded categorization. The stories are just simply good stories of men/women or boys/girls who are heros. I used to read this to my nephew when he was small (oh so many years ago) and this was his favorite story book.

I love everything Jack Zipes writes, and this book is no exception. This anthology is wonderful because he includes wonderful variations on well-known fairy tales, intriguing lesser-known tales, and insightful critical essays and commentary. I use this book as one of the assigned texts for a course I teach on the "revised" fairy tale. My students love it at the same time their romantic illusions about fairy tales as "sweet children's-happily ever after tales" are irrevocably shattered! I highly

Jack Zipes collects in this volume a selection of some of the best feminist fairy tales written up to 1986. Of course Tanith Lee and Angela Carter are in there, but also authors I had never heard of before. The critical section in the back interested me much less than the stories themselves, but that may just be because after twenty years the criticism seems dated and sort of, well, "duh."

Some of these stories are a bit... meh, but the good ones more than make up for it and the essays are fascinating.