Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-127)
Table of Contents; Introduction 11; CHAPTER 1 Fairy Tales and Contemporary Women's Short Stories 17; Rewriting fairy tales and hagiography 32; Reworking motherhood 38; The mother-daughter relationship 52; Empowering monstrosity in contemporary fairy tales 57; CHAPTER 2 Monstrous Inheritance: Animal Bodies 63; Anger and the tradition of contes melusiniens 64; Angry young women 68; CHAPTER 3 Cutting the Body Free: Between Hagiography and Fairy Tales 79; "Flesh of my flesh": the body in pain? 83; CHAPTER 4 Knowledge and Desire: Cannibal Appetites 97; Cannibalism and fairy tale tradition 98
Cooking the cannibal 103Conclusions 109; References 113
