Keywords
• Restriction
• Willing Bondage
• Passivity
• Dependency
• From hearth to nursery
• Mother
• Domesticity
• Servitude
• Masculine supervision
• Conformity
• Oedipal ambiguities
• Male power
• Relegate
• Total reliance
• Conformity
• Oedipal ambiguities
• Male power
• Relegate
• Total reliance
Quotes
Feminism and Fairy Tales
Karen E. Rowe
"...such alluring fantasies gloss the heroine's inability to act self-assertively, total reliance on external rescues, willing bondage to father and prince, and her restriction to hearth and nursery."
"In short, fairy tales perpetuate the patriarchal status quo by making female subordination seem a romantically desirable, indeed n inescapable fate."
"...continue to glamourise a heroine's traditional yearning for romantic love which cultivates in marriage."
"...folklorists counter any casual dismissal as folktales are mere entertainment by arguing that they have aways been one of culture's primary mechanisms for inculcating roes and behaviours."
"These tales which glorify passivity, decency, and self-sacrifice as a heroine's cardinal virtues suggests that culture's very survival depends upon a woman's acceptance of roles which relegate her to motherhood and domesticity."
"They transfer from fairytales into real life those fantasies which exalt acquiescence to male power and make marriage not simply one ideal, but the only estate toward which women should aspire."
"The idealisations, which reflect culture's approval, mane the female's choice of marriage and maternity seem commendable, indeed predestined."
"In short, fairy tales are not just entertaining fantasies, but powerful transmitters of romantic myths which encourage women to internalise only aspirations deemed appropriate to our 'real' sexual functions within a patriarchy."
"Indeed, fairy tale fantasies come to seem more deluding than problem-solving."
"Fairy tales, therefore, no longer provide mythic validations of desirable female behaviour; instead they seem more purely escapist or nostalgic, having lost their potency because of the widening gap between social practice and mantic idealisation."
"An examination of a few popular folktales from the perspective of modern feminism not only reveals why romanic fantasy exerts such a powerful allure but also illuminates how contemporary ambiguities cloud women's attitudes towards men and marriage,"
"For the ageing stepmother, the young girl's maturation signals her own waning sexual attractiveness and control."
"...such alluring fantasies gloss the heroine's inability to act self-assertively, total reliance on external rescues, willing bondage to father and prince, and her restriction to hearth and nursery."
"In short, fairy tales perpetuate the patriarchal status quo by making female subordination seem a romantically desirable, indeed n inescapable fate."
"...continue to glamourise a heroine's traditional yearning for romantic love which cultivates in marriage."
"...folklorists counter any casual dismissal as folktales are mere entertainment by arguing that they have aways been one of culture's primary mechanisms for inculcating roes and behaviours."
"These tales which glorify passivity, decency, and self-sacrifice as a heroine's cardinal virtues suggests that culture's very survival depends upon a woman's acceptance of roles which relegate her to motherhood and domesticity."
"They transfer from fairytales into real life those fantasies which exalt acquiescence to male power and make marriage not simply one ideal, but the only estate toward which women should aspire."
"The idealisations, which reflect culture's approval, mane the female's choice of marriage and maternity seem commendable, indeed predestined."
"In short, fairy tales are not just entertaining fantasies, but powerful transmitters of romantic myths which encourage women to internalise only aspirations deemed appropriate to our 'real' sexual functions within a patriarchy."
"Indeed, fairy tale fantasies come to seem more deluding than problem-solving."
"Fairy tales, therefore, no longer provide mythic validations of desirable female behaviour; instead they seem more purely escapist or nostalgic, having lost their potency because of the widening gap between social practice and mantic idealisation."
"An examination of a few popular folktales from the perspective of modern feminism not only reveals why romanic fantasy exerts such a powerful allure but also illuminates how contemporary ambiguities cloud women's attitudes towards men and marriage,"
"For the ageing stepmother, the young girl's maturation signals her own waning sexual attractiveness and control."
"Fairy tales, therefore, do acknowledge traumatic ambivalences and during a female's rite of passage they respond to the need for both detachment from childish symbioses and a subsequent embracing of adult independence. Yet, this evolution dooms female protagonists (and readers) to pursue adult potentials in one way only: the heroine dreamily anticipates conformity to those predestined roles of wife and mother. "
" ...reward these heroines or patient servitude or dreamy waiting."
"She trades her independent selfhood for subordination."
"Subjection to masculine supervision and denied any true independence."
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