“Mirror, Mirror on the wall / Who Is the Freest of Them All?”: portrayals of Princesses in Grimms’ Fairy Tales and Contemporary Children’s Literature

According to scholars, Grimm’s Kinder- und Hausmärchen seems to have promoted patriarchal bourgeois values as part of the socialization process in the nineteenth century, modelling children’s gender identity and behaviour over time. Taking into account, under the hegemonic representations of gender,...

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Main Authors: Maria da Conceição Tomé, Glória Bastos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Red de Universidades Lectoras 2013-12-01
Series:Álabe
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Online Access:http://revistaalabe.com/index/alabe/article/view/166/146