For the very first time The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm makes available in English all 156 stories from the 1812 and 1815 editions.

Tale Summary In this Danish rendition of the Princess in a Coffin tale type, you observe a king and queen that are unable to naturally bear a child, so they must seek the help of a wise old woman to ...

Dorothy L. Hurley, Seeing White: Children of Color and the Disney Fairy Tale Princess, The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Summer, 2005), pp. 221-232 ...

As they beamed with happiness and confidence under their plastic crowns, I was delighted to see that princess fairy tales have inspired another generation of young women to dream.

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya doesn't exactly offer any solutions for real-life women who are oppressed by society — Kaguya gets out because, well, she's a supernatural being.

In 1998’s feminist fairy tales, your convictions will take you—and your narrative—further than even the liveliest choir of mice.

As much as I love fairy tales, I'll be the first to admit that they're often hella misogynistic in the treatment of their female characters, sometimes even violently so. There's one little-known ...

Animated fairy-tale almost-princess Giselle crosses through a magical portal into real-world New York City (the exact opposite of Virginia's adventure in The 10th Kingdom).