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Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys
Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales | Ruth B. Bottigheimer
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In this book -- the first in more than fifty years to treat the entire body of Grimms' Tales -- Ruth B. Bottigheimer provides a thorough analysis of the stories' content, focusing in particular on the matter of gender. By combining a sociohistorical examination of the stories with close scrutiny of the language in which they are told, Bottigheimer reveals coherent patterns of motif, plot, and image and brings new insight into the moral and social vision of the collection.
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A book that not only gives fresh perspective on the Grimms' Fairy Tales, but gives a new lens on all media; how everything had someone behind it, who wrote it from a specific worldview. The Grimms were an intermediary from mouth to page, and what they changed for the sake of their morals still affects us today.

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Knowing that the plot of "Mother Holle" includes a beautiful diligent maiden and her ugly and lazy stepsister, one can assume that the latter will talk more often.

Brief though this tale is, it, too, maintains a pattern in which bad girls talk more frequently.