indra
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I'm currently reading Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale by Catherine Orenstein. It's a very interesting and often hilarious book. The author takes 10 tellings of the story and examines them in the context of their time and place.
From Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood a cautionary tale to "good girls" about slick guys (wolves), to the brothers Grimm's Little Red Cap a tale pushing obedience, to the much more modern fare of The Punishment of Little Red Riding Hood, described in the index as fairy tale fetish (that one made me laugh!), and on to the movie Freeway, with a very self reliant chick.
I'm only about a third of the way through, but so far it's been a blast.
So...what are you reading?
From Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood a cautionary tale to "good girls" about slick guys (wolves), to the brothers Grimm's Little Red Cap a tale pushing obedience, to the much more modern fare of The Punishment of Little Red Riding Hood, described in the index as fairy tale fetish (that one made me laugh!), and on to the movie Freeway, with a very self reliant chick.
I'm only about a third of the way through, but so far it's been a blast.
So...what are you reading?