The horrifying case in France of a husband who drugged his wife to orchestrate her rapes raises difficult questions about the images of sleeping beauties in our literature. Isn’t it time we reread these texts?
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The Met Gala explored fashion’s complex relationship with nature and the passing of time.
A lecturer in English literature gets her students to examine children’s books through the lens of race, class and sexuality.
Visual references to mythological and popular culture figures of female anger abound in the latest Dr. Strange movie.
The row over Sleeping Beauty is just the latest in a long history of controversy surrounding fairy tales for children.
Fairytales are increasingly being targeted for giving girls inappropriate messages. But these stories have always evolved with the times, and talk of banning them is misguided.
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Lecturer in Romantic and Victorian Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Associate Professor in Literary Studies, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer Visual Culture, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Associate Professor of French Media, Culture, and Applied Linguistics, Simon Fraser University
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Lecturer in English Literature, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Chercheuse en littérature française (Le genre, la lecture, les femmes et la culture), Sorbonne Université