"James Finn Garner - Politically Correct Bedtime Stories" - читать интересную книгу автора (Garner James Finn)

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION ix

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD I

THE EMPEROR'S NEW CLOTHES 5

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS 9

RUMPELSTILTSKIN 13

THE TI IREE CODEPENDENT GOATS GRUFF 17

RAPUNZEL 23

CINDERELLA 31

GOLDILOCKS 39

SNOW WHITE 43

CHICKEN LITTLE 57

THE FROG PRINCE 63

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK 67

TI IE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN 73

INTRODUCTION

When they were first written, the stories
on which the following tales are based
certainly served their purposeЧto
entrench the patriarchy, to estrange people from
their own natural impulses, to demonize "evil" and
to "reward" an "objective" "good." However much
we might like to, we cannot blame the Brothers
Grimm for their insensitivity to womyn's issues,
minority cultures, and the environment. Likewise, in
the self-righteous Copenhagen of Hans Christian
Andersen, the inalienable rights of mermaids were
hardly given a second thought.

Today, we have the opportunityЧand the obliga-
tionЧto rethink these "classic" stories so they reflect
more enlightened times. To that effort I submit this
humble book. While its original title, Fairy Stories For
a Modem World, was abandoned for obvious reasons