Fairy Tales Sexuality and Gender in France 1690 1715

Between 1690 and 1715 well over one hundred literary fairy tales appeared in France two-thirds of them written by women. The first part of this book situates the rise of this genre within the literary and historical context of late-seventeenth-century France and the second part examines the representation of sexuality masculinity and femininity within selected groups of tales. The book proposes a new model for the application of feminist and gender theory to the literary fairy tale from whatever national tradition.