Andrea_Dworkin
In her 1974 book
- Woman Hating,
- Andrea Dworkin uses traditional fairy tales
- to illustrate misogyny.
- Fairy tales designate certain women as "good",
- for example Sleeping Beauty and Snow White,
- who are inert,
- passive characters.
- Dworkin observed that these characters
- "never think,
- act,
- initiate,
- confront,
- resist,
- challenge,
- feel,
- care, or
- question.
- Sometimes they are forced to do housework."
- In contrast,
- the "evil" women
- who populate fairy tales
- are queens,
- witches, and
- other women with power.
- Further,
- men in fairy tales are said to be
- good kings and
- good husbands
- irrespective of their actions.
- For Dworkin,
- this illustrates that
- under misogyny
- only powerless women
- are allowed to be seen as good.
- No similar judgement is applied to men.[95]
SEE: PDF Lentz File
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