Spinning Straw into Gold
Subtitle: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: February 14, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780812975451
Subjects: Women In Literature; Folklore; Social Science; Sociology; Women's Studies - General; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; General; Psychology & Psychiatry / General; Folklore & Mythology
First sentence: The youngest heroine in this book, at least the youngest emotionally, is a girl who hasn't yet completed her first transformation of consciousness: puberty, which eventually produces an independent sexual woman from a dependent child.