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Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World Paperback - 2000

by Kathleen Ragan (Editor)

This "jewel of an anthology" ("Booklist") features 100 great folktales and fairy tales from all over the world about strong, smart, brave heroines. "The result is a book of . . . shimmering, spine-tingling tales in which females of every shape, age, and size valiantly and selflessly save the day" ("Elle").


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Dismayed by the predominance of male protagonists in her daughters' books, Kathleen Ragan set out to collect the stories of our forgotten heroines. Gathered from around the world, from regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa and Western Europe, from North and South American Indian cultures and New World settlers, from Asia and the Middle East, these 100 folktales celebrate strong female heroines.

Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters is for all women who are searching to define who they are, to redefine the world and shape their collective sensibility. It is for men who want to know more about what it means to be a woman. It is for our daughters and our sons, so that they can learn to value all kinds of courage, courage in battle and the courage of love. It is for all of us to help build a more just vision of woman.

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There was a path that ran along near the edge of a cliff above the sea, and along this path in the gloaming of a misty day, came two fairy women of the Sidh.

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  • Title Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World
  • Author Kathleen Ragan (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Pages 480
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
  • Date May 2000
  • ISBN 9780393320466 / 0393320464
  • Weight 1.31 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 6.14 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 15.60 x 2.03 cm)
  • Reading level 1060
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women heroes
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97030438
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.208
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