Citation

Ronderos CE, Berg MG. Violence Against Women 2020; 26(14): 1817-1822.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1077801220942851

PMID

32869734

Abstract

The poems selected here explore the hidden side of some of the most popular fairy tales. Girls become women guided by myths that define their passive role, their submission to violent behavior by men in their lives, be they fathers, husbands, or lovers. These poems look at a girl's fantasies from a different perspective: that a woman's life becomes the work of demystifying the myths that dominated her childhood to create a newly informed and subversive version of the myth.

Language: en

Keywords

women; Latin America; myths; daring; fairy tales; poetry; retelling fables