It's a feminist writer's dream because it plays around with gender roles, all that potent male-female power stuff, which in this case is strangely subverted. Judging by the countless pop-culture spinoffs we see in advertising, film, music and cartoons, Red's story still reverberates with sexual danger and the irresistible lure of the forbidden. In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Story, women's issues journalist Catherine Orenstein has hit the mother lode of Mother Goose, peeling back layers of literary embroidery to reveal the raw, primal tale within. As she eats, a talking cat taunts her, "She is a slut who eats the flesh and drinks the blood of her granny!"īut the next line is even more chilling: "Undress, my child," said the bzou, "and come to bed beside me." He then demands she do a slow, item-by-item striptease, throwing each article of her clothing into the fire: "You won't be needing them any more." The fairy tale we tell our innocent little children was originally a much more gruesome European folk-tale about a half-man, half-wolf who murders Granny, grinds her up into hamburger and feeds her to the unwitting Little Red Riding Hood. Have you ever heard the story of Little Red Riding Hood and the bzou? Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale Reviews | Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked by Catherine Orenstein
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