Fairy Tales and the Female Imagination

Montreal: Eden Press, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This is a stated first edition. The interior of the book is crisp and clean, with no marks or signs of previous use. The blue covers are bright, with just a touch of wear at tips and corners. The silver gilt spine lettering is still bright. The dust jacket is also in very good condition with a slightly faded spine but light wear else. The jacket is now in a protective mylar cover. Synopsis: "Fairy tales are subversive in the detrimental role models they present to girls, the long lasting influences these models seem to have on the female imagination, and the support given to the fairy tale genre by child Psychologists. [This book] traces these influences and their shift over the last twenty-five years as feminism has developed. It does this by presentation and analysis of novels by a group of French and French Canadian women writers, each of whom recreates the basic pattern of well-known fairy tales in one of her books - Hebert, "The Silent Rooms," de Beauvoir, "Les Belles Images;" Blais, "Mad Shadows" Duras, "The Rapture of Lol V. Stein; Hyvrard, The Prunes of Cythera"; Wittig, "Les Guerilleres;" Bersianik, "The Eugelionne;" Belaunay, "A Bad Reading.