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The Princess Story - Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (Hardcover, New edition)
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The Princess Story - Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction and Film (Hardcover, New edition)
Series: Modern American Literature, 63
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What is a princess story? In this subgenre, newly defined in The
Princess Story, the protagonist either is a princess or is
attempting to become one: the girl transforms into or identifies
herself as a princess through marriage or through discovered
identity, or both. Princess lessons often accompany this
transformation, lessons that not only educate the fictional girl
but also the reader. Cultural expectations and anxieties about the
roles of girls and women are transmitted through princess stories,
and the dialogic nature of feminism and patriarchy, forces for
progress and forces for tradition, can be explored through their
study. In this book, feminism and progress are embodied by the
first, second, and third wave of feminist princess stories;
patriarchy and tradition are represented by Disney Studios'
princess stories. All of these stories influenced their readers,
some of whom grew up to write their own princess stories, stories
that reflected and - they hoped - furthered their ideological
goals. Princess stories of the early 2000s are compelling in that
they tensely balance romance and feminist assumptions. Anyone
interested in folklore studies, feminist studies, children's
literature, Disney studies, film adaptations, psychology,
sociology, or theories of child development will find The Princess
Story: Modeling the Feminine in Twentieth-Century American Fiction
and Film essential reading. When contemplating the changes made by
feminists to American culture, no one figure is as worth examining
as the fictional princess, and no book has yet approached the topic
as thoroughly as this one.
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