![]() ![]() Red Riding Hood Uncloaked is concerned less with defining the fairy tale than with interrogating the diverse ways in which "the fairy tale defines us". Focusing on questions of gender and generation, sexual and social politics-across a variety of genres (including literature, film, advertising, music, cartoons, poetry and pornography)-Orenstein's intelligent, witty and, for the most part, insightful, study is "an exploration of society's 'vested' interest in Little Red Riding Hood-in the messages she wears, and those she covers up". In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, freelance writer Catherine Orenstein unravels the knotty trajectory of one of the most popular fairy tales and its heroine. She has suffered abuse after abuse, and it is time that the true story of this seductively innocent girl be revealed". She began her career by being gobbled up by the wicked wolf. "Little Red Riding Hood has never enjoyed an easy life. ![]() Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale ![]()
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