List of feminist retellings of fairy tales

This list includes only feminist retellings and takes on fairy tales. It does not include the numerous anthologies of preexisting feminist fairy tales, and it does not include modern fairy tales.

See also

• List of collections of traditional feminist fairy and folk tales
• List of collections of modern feminist fairy tales
• List of feminist retellings of fairy tales
• List of feminist fairy tale scholarship
• List of collections of fairy tales by women

Works

Collections

• Angela Carter
• Emma Donoghue, Kissing the Witch
• Attic Press Feminist fairy tales series
• Alison Lurie, Clever Gretchen
• Once Upon a Time When the Princess Rescued the Prince by Rosemary Lake (retellings based on a variety of traditional and classic stories, but with significant new material)
• Feminist Fairy Tales by Barbara G. Walker

Novel-length retellings

Some of these may be fairy tale style; others may use a traditional fairy tale or interweave the fairy tale into a modern or other setting.

• The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
• Peg Kerr, The Wild Swans

Further reading

• Fairy Tales Retold librarything group