Product Description: Overturns traditional views of the origins of fairy tales and documents their actual origins and transmission.

Product Description: Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative.

Product Description: For more than five centuries, parents, teachers and preachers in Europe and America have written and illustrated Bibles especially for children. These children's Bibles vary widely, featuring different stories, various interpretations, and markedly divergent illustrations, despite their common source...read more

Product Description: Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative.

Examines the life and work of Giovanni Francesco Straparola, who created the modern fairy tale and sought his fortune by selling his tales to the inhabitants of Renaissance Venice.

Product Description: In this book -- the first in more than fifty years to treat the entire body of Grimms' Tales -- Ruth B. Bottigheimer provides a thorough analysis of the stories' content, focusing in particular on the matter of gender. By combining a sociohistorical examination of the stories with close scrutiny of the language in which they are told, Bottigheimer reveals coherent patterns of motif, plot, and image and brings new insight into the moral and social vision of the collection...read more