For discussion of fairy tale literature, new and old. ... Hey everybody, I'm a french student writing an essay about the violence in fairy tales. Does anybody know some good book about the subject?

The red light district refers not only to sexual exploitation but also to the political violence Salvadorans suffered in the late seventies. ... or Red Riding-Hood Over Again." The Fairy Tales of Every Day.

In Off with their Heads!, Maria Tatar points out the neglect of violence in fairy tales today in the following passage:

Readers of these versions may find more violence and crudity (and occasional anti-Semitism) than in the retellings that are more familiar to most modern readers.

Fairy tales deal with the problems of everyday life: separation from parents or loved ones, death, betrayal, cruelty, violence, and love.

Are you sick and tired of those "conservative" fairy tales? ... Well, RWN is coming to your rescue with our "Politically Correct Fairy Tales!"

Grimms' Fairy Tales, as the English-language version is usually called, ... Even today some protective parents shy from the Grimms' tales because of their reputation for violence.

Sex and violence sells, can't show only fairy tales: Sharmila Tagore - By Radhika Bhirani, New Delhi, Oct 3: A dash of sex and violence is a sure shot formula for filmmakers to bring in audiences, ...

Yet something important is lost when a child's introduction to fairy tales comes in such whitewashed form. ... Young kids are already exposed to plenty of violence, he says, in news reports and

According to Zipes, fairy tales "serve a meaningful social function not just for compensation but for revelation: the the worlds projected by the best of our fairy tales reveal the gaps between...