ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cardinal Virtues, Radical Feminism, Alison Lurie
9 Jan 2019
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Female coming of age stories: on princesses and damsels in distress. Is this true: [fairy] tales which glorify passivity, dependency, and self-sacrifice as a heroine"s cardinal virtues suggest that culture"s very survival depends upon a woman"s acceptance of roles which relegate her to motherhood and domesticity. (rowe 344) Marcia r. lieberman in 1972: rebuttal to lurie, questions relevance of traditional male control for new audiences, context, canonization, alternative fairy-tale narratives (hasse 395) [ ] all encouraged a self-conscious, critical engagement with the classical tales as a means to liberate women to imagine and construct new identities (399) 1970s: karen rowe, carolyn g. heilburn, madonna kolhenschlag. 1980s: colette dowling, linda chervin and mary neill. Christine shojaei kawan, suzanne barchers, virginia hamilton, a. b. Ragan: angela carter stresses precisely those dimensions of a woman"s life including sexuality that male editors had suppressed (400, jack zipes in 1983: the trials and tribulations of little red riding hood (401)
