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Elisabeth Gruner
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Elisabeth Gruner is an associate professor of English at the University of Richmond. Her current research focuses on children's fantasy literature, especially as it relates to gender, education and religion. She teaches a first-year seminar course on fairy tales and also writes a weekly blog post for Inside Higher Ed on its Mama, PhD blog, “Mothering at Mid-Career.”

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Why Not the Fairest?

(106) Comments | Posted June 6, 2012 | 7:42 PM

Fairy tales are one of the oldest, and sturdiest, narrative forms our culture knows. We love to tell them, read them, share them, and, especially, retell and remake them -- they form the backbone of an enormous variety of movies, cartoons, advertisements, and novels. Each era seems to have its...

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