![]() ![]() ![]() Whereas the traditional forms tend to portray female characters as objects whose sexuality is passive and unspoken-a thing to be won by the prince, but always repressed-Carter’s stories insist on an active and visceral feminine sexuality. Angela Carter addressed this issue in 1979 when she published The Bloody Chamber, a collection of short stories that reimagines many of these texts from a feminist perspective. The problem is that nearly everything in the European fairy tale canon is either obviously or ambiguously misogynistic. You know the ones-Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel and so on. Whether we choose to blame Disney or the broader hegemonic influence of northern and western Europe on culture, there is a set of fairy tales that nearly every American knows by heart despite their issues. ![]()
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