Fairy tales linked to violent relationships - Yahoo! News: "A study of both parents of primary school children and women who have been involved in domestic abuse claims than those who grew up reading fairy tales are likely to be more submissive as adults."
I have two responses to this: one, it seems way too simplistic. (Read Karen Rowe's classic article, "Feminism and Fairy Tales," for the origin of the argument, and multitudinous studies since then about the ways in which children remake the stories they hear for a refutation...) And two, who's this grad student's publicist? This is an unpublished, not-yet-delivered conference paper that's getting press already!
Friday, April 29, 2005
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