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sere_rev 's review for:
Gender Swapped Fairy Tales
by Karrie Fransman, Jonathan Plackett
I wanted to like this book, but frankly I found nothing particularly thought-provoking in it.
The authors claim to provide an unbiased account of gender characterization in fairy tales, as they leave the "gender swapping" to an algorithm of their own design: however, it is clear that they do in fact bring their own prejudices to the text. Specifically, I was baffled by certain word changes: why must a male Rapunzel grow a long beard, instead of hair? Why did "sleeping beauty" have to become "sleeping handsome"? The illustration of the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood (now female) wearing lipstick and high heels was just the cherry on the gender stereotyped cake.
The authors claim to provide an unbiased account of gender characterization in fairy tales, as they leave the "gender swapping" to an algorithm of their own design: however, it is clear that they do in fact bring their own prejudices to the text. Specifically, I was baffled by certain word changes: why must a male Rapunzel grow a long beard, instead of hair? Why did "sleeping beauty" have to become "sleeping handsome"? The illustration of the wolf from Little Red Riding Hood (now female) wearing lipstick and high heels was just the cherry on the gender stereotyped cake.