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Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World by Kathleen Ragan
5.0
Amazing collection of just over 100 folktales from all over the world where women are the heroes. In most of our culture's well-known fairy tales, women too often play either a passive role or embody only negative qualities: the damsel in distress or the evil stepmother. Ms. Ragan has gathered an immensely valuable anthology with examples of women and girls cooperating with each other, protecting and rescuing their loved ones, solving difficult problems, demonstrating bravery and intelligence, and actively affecting their world.
Organized geographically into six sections (tales from Europe, North and South America, Asia, the Pacific, Sub-saharan Africa, and North Africa and the Middle East), Ms. Ragan provides a wide variety of stories, some familiar, some with familiar elements, and some entirely new (to me at least). I'm not even going to attempt to pick out my favorites; there were far too many!
I would recommend only reading a few stories at a time. Sitting down to read them all in one fell swoop just makes them run all together instead of preserving the unique feel and qualities of each.
For more book reviews, come visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves.
Organized geographically into six sections (tales from Europe, North and South America, Asia, the Pacific, Sub-saharan Africa, and North Africa and the Middle East), Ms. Ragan provides a wide variety of stories, some familiar, some with familiar elements, and some entirely new (to me at least). I'm not even going to attempt to pick out my favorites; there were far too many!
I would recommend only reading a few stories at a time. Sitting down to read them all in one fell swoop just makes them run all together instead of preserving the unique feel and qualities of each.
For more book reviews, come visit my blog, Build Enough Bookshelves.