Uh... let me think about that. So much work has been done on femininity that I'm having trouble thinking of anything on masculinity. If nothing else, there's Ruth Bottigheimer's book Grimm's Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales. And there's a lot of gender-y stuff in Donald Haase's edited book Fairy Tales and Feminism: New Approaches, which I'm currently re-reading for purposes of writing a review (Haase's own bibliographic essay, first in the volume, is really useful).
Just don't get sucked into all that Robert Bly/Iron John nonsense without a critical eye. It's ridiculously trendy these days, and not terribly scholarly (kinda the masculinist movement's parallel to Clarissa Pinkola Estes's Women Who Run with the Wolves).
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Date: 2006-08-25 02:44 pm (UTC)Just don't get sucked into all that Robert Bly/Iron John nonsense without a critical eye. It's ridiculously trendy these days, and not terribly scholarly (kinda the masculinist movement's parallel to Clarissa Pinkola Estes's Women Who Run with the Wolves).