Abstract
Feminist folklorists have long asserted that women’s bodies are represented in fairy tales differently than men’s bodies, in normative and sexist ways. By using computational approaches to analyze a corpus of canonical fairy tales, I assess these claims and establish that women’s bodies are depicted in distinctive ways in fairy tales. This finding is important for scholars interested in fairy-tale studies, gender studies, and computational approaches to folklore studies.
AFS ETHNOGRAPHIC THESAURUS:, Fairy tales, literary folktales, gender, computational folkloristics, feminist theory
The text of this article is only available as a PDF.
Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
2019
You do not currently have access to this content.