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Kiss Sleeping Beauty Good-Bye

by Madonna Kolbenschlag · 1979

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Using female fairy tale characters as models for the different feminine roles, Kolbenschlag explains that the dependent roles of Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks and others have been replaced by a stronger, more independent woman seeking her own place in the world.

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psychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of thissociologysociologyMore like thisLess of this
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fairy talefairy taleMore like thisLess of this
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womenwomenMore like thisLess of this
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adult

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