For my gender class we are doing presentations. My groups is on how women are portrayed in fairy tales. My part is witches in fairy tales. I guess i had a lack of a childhood, what are fairy tales with witches??![]()
For my gender class we are doing presentations. My groups is on how women are portrayed in fairy tales. My part is witches in fairy tales. I guess i had a lack of a childhood, what are fairy tales with witches??![]()
Snow White
Hansel & Gretel
Rapunzel
I'll think of more I'm sure.





Rapunzel!
::runs to get her fairy tale book::
yeah, all i remember from that is a girl with long hair, lol





Jorinda and Joringel by the Brother's Grimm
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You can also look into the stories of Hans Christian Andersen. He's got dozens of stories that have witches!
Because there ain't no tits on the radio
i think witches have lots of cats in fairy tales - as far as i remember![]()



gender class?
interesting
lol, yup. Its psychology of gender





Baba Yaga is a famous Russian fairy tale witch. She lived in a house that had chicken feet and could walk around, and she ate children (as most fairy tale witches were keen on doing).
waffles are just pancakes with little squares on them.
There's a fabulous book called Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue, which provides alternate perspectives of fairytales, such as a woman who was unlucky in love and disguised herself as a witch and made medicine. Rapunzel is a beauty queen with a horrible stage mother who is rescued by an admirer.
And you should also look at Foster Homes and typically any step mother. When they retired from fairy tales that is where they ended up ...ha ha.
Cinderella.... the stepmother.
Shrek!!! The "evil" fairygodmother!
Um, not to hi-jack the thread (which from the title doesn't seem to be about witches at all!) there is a science fiction book by James Alan Gardner called Committment Hour in which children grow up switching sex each year then at 20 they have to choose which sex they will stay for the rest of their life. Might be something you want to suggest to be added to the class reading list if it's not already on it.
And to really bend the rules a bit, I'm very glad I'm a male in our society--even if I could be a HOT female! (Cuz I don't think I'd want to put up with men!)
Little Mermaid, Ursula
Hansel & Gretel, Witch in house of Candy
"You have demonic genius" -Naomi Wolf
"I very much resent it when people - maybe with good intentions or from a progressive point of view - keep telling me, 'It's their culture' ... It's like saying the culture of Massachusetts is burning witches." -Azar Nafisi
Women only need to put up with men until they are into their 30's or 40's and/or get fat, old, and ugly.Originally Posted by pet_rock
In those years, they will be dreamily remembering the guys who "use to ask them out all the time."




Shakespeare's "MacBeth" has three witches.
And we can't forget about "Wizard of Oz."
Witches are always portrayed as having hook noses, missing teeth, and bad skin. Damn, you could include ME in your project! Just kidding, hehe.



what did you learn/are you learningfrom this class
i dont believe in the psychology of gender as anything more than a social construct
i think too much emphasis is placed on gender(not to mention race age and sexuality)as defining and therefore dividing characteristics
by design
by a confused themselves patriarchy
haha
sounds cool anyway tho for a class
Originally Posted by Deogol
dreamily remebering? not hardly sweetie. i don't 'have to put up with men' at all...because i ignore them. i only have to work with them. i say i'm glad i'm female. independant and free (whatever that means). even in a jacked up male dominated society
as far as fairytales go i don't know of too many...but it looks like your covered by the other responses.
Last edited by MsTopaz; 08-12-2005 at 05:57 AM.
why do some people still have to fight to get the same opportunities that are given to others?
reclusiveness...is a good thing.
the greatest revenge in the world...is success.



i dont wsanna get old and faft
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