The Center for Children's Books


Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Women and Storytelling

Selected by Dr. Betsy Hearne

Strong Women Collections | Other Strong Women | Feminist Issues


Strong Women Collections

Barchers, Suzanne, ed. Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World.

Carter, Angela, ed. Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book. Pantheon, 1990.

Hamilton, Virginia. Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, & True Tales. Scholastic,1995.

Lurie, Alison. Clever Gretchen and Other Forgotten Folktales. Crowell, 1980.

Minard, Rosemary. Womenfolk and Fairy Tales. Houghton, 1975.

Phelps, Ethel. Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World. Holt, 1981

Riordan, James. The Woman in the Moon & Other Tales of Forgotten Heroines. Dial,1985

Tchana, Katrin. The Serpent Slayer & Other Stories of Strong Women. Little Brown, 2000

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Other Strong Women

Cole, Babette. Princess Smarty Pants. Putnam, 1987; Prince Cinders. Putnam, 1988.

Corbalis, Judy. The Wrestling Princess and Other Stories. Dutton, 1986.

Del Negro, Janice. Lucy Dove. DK Ink, 1998.

Hearne, Betsy. Seven Brave Women. Greenwillow, 1997.

Meider, Wolfgang, ed. Disenchantments: An Anthology of Modern Fairy Tale Poetry. U.Vermont, 1985.

Munsch, Robert. The Paper Bag Princess. Annick Press, 1980.

Sexton, Anne. Transformations. Houghton, 1971.

Williams, Jay. The Practical Princess and Other Liberating Fairy Tales. Parents, 1987.

Yolen, Jane. Sleeping Ugly. Coward, 1981.

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Feminist Issues

Kolbenschlag, Madonna. Kiss Sleeping Beauty Goodbye. New York: Doubleday, 1979.

Laroque, G.E. "You Gotta Kiss a Lotta Frogs Before You Find Prince Charming." English Journal, December, 1979. v. 68, pp. 31-35.

Lieberman, Marcia. "Someday My Prince Will Come: Female Acculturation Through the Fairy Tale." College English, 1972. v.34, pp. 383-395.

Rowe, Karen. "Feminism and Fairy Tales." Women's Studies, 1979. v.6, pp.237-257.

Stone, Kaye. "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us." Journal of American Folklore, 1975. v. 88, pp. 42-50.

Zipes, Jack. Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England. Methuen, 1986.

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