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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() DisfiguredOn Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space |
A CBC BOOKS BEST NONFICTION OF 2020, AN ENTROPY MAGAZINE BEST NONFICTION 2020/21, AND A NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK OF THE DAY (07/23/2022) Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what … | Amanda Leduc | 257 | 2020 | View |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Disfigured |
The introduction explores the author’s personal experiences with disability and how her love of nature made her turn to examine how disability is represented in fairy tales. | Amanda Leduc | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() One: Capturing the Water WorldFrom: The Imperilled Ocean |
In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey explores the career … | Laura Trethewey | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
From ![]() The Child Whose Head Was Bathed in DarknessFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 1 examines the objectives behind fairy tales, exploring topics including folk tales and oral traditions, myth and superstition, the Brothers Grimm, happy endings, nature and the woods, … | Amanda Leduc | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() DisabilityA Fairy Tale From: Disfigured |
Chapter 2 focuses on concepts of disability through time, discussing topics including the social model of disability and the medical model of disability, disability as something to be cured, … | Amanda Leduc | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
From ![]() In Olden Times, When Wishing Still HelpedThe Fairy Tale in France and Germany From: Disfigured |
Chapter 3 explores fairy tales from France and Germany, exploring topics including the rise of modern fairy tales, disfigurement and disability in fairy tales, a history of the Grimm brothers, … | Amanda Leduc | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() Someday My Prince Will ComeDisney and the World Without Shadows From: Disfigured |
Chapter 4 focuses on Disney’s interpretation of fairy tales, discussing topics including ‘Disneyfication’ of well-known fairy tales, elements of disability in Disney … | Amanda Leduc | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() The Little Dumb FoundlingHans Christian Andersen's Ugly Little Duckings From: Disfigured |
Chapter 5 focuses on the work of Hans Christian Andersen, exploring topics including “The Little Mermaid”, Andersen’s own disability, Andersen’s book "The … | Amanda Leduc | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() Something Below HumanityThe Beautiful and the Beastly From: Disfigured |
Chapter 6 examines the archetype of beauty and the beast, exploring topics such as physical beauty, pity, humanity, isolation and childhood, beauty as good a sign of one’s characteristics, … | Amanda Leduc | 27 | 2020 | $2.70 Add |
From ![]() The Desolate LandFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 7 explores ‘desolate lands’ as synonyms for depression in fairy tales, discussing topics including rape in fairy tales, construction of mental illness in fairy tales, the case … | Amanda Leduc | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
From ![]() Monsters and MarvelsFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 8 focuses on the fine line between what is considered monstrous and the marvellous in fairy tales and real life, exploring topics such as superheros, circus and spectacle, … | Amanda Leduc | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
From ![]() The Great UnravellingFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 9 explores the future of how disability will be in the present and near future, discussing topics like fairy tales and the ideology of able bodiedness, the political, social, economic … | Amanda Leduc | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
From ![]() AfterwordFrom: Disfigured |
The afterword reflects on portrayals of disability and wheelchair use in recent media. | Amanda Leduc | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |