ENGL 2P11 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jane Yolen, Not Fair
8 Apr 2016
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Representation of gender in jane yolens lost girls. Many of jane yolen"s short stories in twelve impossible things before breakfast are rewrites of classic children"s fairy tales. Yolens" lost girls is a feminist critique of the classic children"s story, peter pan. Jane yolen offers a feminist reshaping of the classic tale by creating a story in neverland with the same original characters but in the perspective of a young girl with feminist ideals. The gender inequality in neverland is exposed through darla"s interpretation of events and characters as she attempts to revolutionize a structure and society within a story that has been universally known for generations. Darla is presented as a feminist from the very beginning of the story as she directly points out how unfair it was that wendy only did the housework in neverland and that peter. Pan and the boys got to fight captain hook (133).
