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Grandmas cottage.
if patriarchy sees women as occupying a marginal position within the symbolic order, then it can construe them as the limit or borderline of that order...Women seen as the limit of the symbolic order will in other words share in the disconcerting properties of all frontiers: they will be neither inside nor outside, neither known nor unknown. It is ( Read more... ) -
Alpha female
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Did you tell her
Did you tell her? Did you tell her the way through the forest? Did you tell her to stay on the path? To not be distracted by pretty things? To mark her steps? To keep her eyes on the forest floor? Did you give her a weapon? Did you teach her not to talk to strangers ( Read more... ) -
Nobody Told her
Something I noticed in rereading LRRH stories is in the first tellings we have nobody tells her to beware of the wolf or to stay on the path. The oldest verion of LRRH we have is generally called The Grandmothers Tale and begins:
A woman had finished her baking, so she asked her daughter to take a fresh galette and a pot of cream to her ( Read more... ) -
hmmm.
'Tell me,' said Magrat, 'you said your mummy knows about the big bad wolf in the woods, didn't you?'
'That's right.'
'But nevertheless she sent you out by yourself to take those goodies to your granny?'
"That's right. Why?'
'Nothing. Just thinking.
Magrat Garlick To LRRH
'Woodcutters!' said Nanny. 'It's all right if there's woodcutters! One ( Read more... ) -
Telling stories
I posted this video:
to told_tales recently and got some surprising responses.
I personally love this retelling because it is a fusion of the oldest known versions of the story and intriguing retelling. It was interesting that the first commenter didn't like it because the wolf killed Red and because she was a sexually attractive young woman (indicated ( Read more... )
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