Can Fairy Tales Be Feminist?
The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism
Slate Podcasts
4.2 • 903 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, we’re diving into fairy tales. Slate book critic Laura Miller talks with author Kelly Link about her collection of fairy tale inspired short stories, White Cat, Black Dog. They discuss how fairy tales have influenced Kelly’s work, the allure of the “searching for a beloved” story, finding a community of female writers.
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| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the waves. |
| 1:02.0 | Sleyts Podcom. Welcome to the Waves, Slate's podcast about gender, feminism, and the grim side of |
| 1:08.0 | Happily Ever After. Every episode of The Waves you get a new feminist to talk about the thing we can't get off our minds and |
| 1:14.7 | today you've got me Laura Miller a books and culture columnist for Slate. |
| 1:19.6 | One of the things we're going to be talking about is fairy tales. Fairy tales like myths are the oldest form of human storytelling and they have always been |
| 1:26.9 | closely linked to women. |
| 1:28.7 | The great 19th century collectors of fairy tales like the Brothers Grimm presented them as stories for children, stories |
| 1:34.5 | passed on by grandmothers and nursemaids and aunties. |
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