Don't Bet on the Prince

Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England is a 1986 anthology edited by Jack Zipes; it primarily includes fiction, but also includes some literary criticism.

Contents

• "Acknowledgements,"
• "Preface,"
• "Introduction" by Jack Zipes;

Section 1, "Feminist Fairy Tales for Young (and Old) Readers"

• "The Princess Who Stood On Her Own Two Feet" by Jeanne Desy (1982);
• "Prince Amilec" Tanith Lee (1972);
• "Petronella" Jay Williams (1979);
• "The Donkey Prince" Angela Carter (1970);
• "... And Then the Prince Knelt Down and Tried to Put the Glass Slipper on Cinderella's Foot" Judith Viorst (1982);
• "Snow White" The Merseyside Fairy Story Collective (1972);
• "The Moon Ribbon" Jane Yolen (1976);
• "Russalka or The Seacoast of Bohemia" Joanna Russ (1978);
• "A Fairy Tale for Our Time" Jack Zipes (1985).

Section 2, "Feminist Fairy Tales for Old (and Young) Readers"

• "The Green Woman" by Meghan B. Collins (1982);
• Briar Rose (Sleeping Beauty) Anne Sexton (1971);
• "Little Red Riding Hood" Olga Broumas (1977);
• "Rapunzel" Sara Henderson Hay (1982);
• "Wolfland" Tanith Lee (1983);
• "Malagan and the Lady of Rascas" Michael de Larrabeiti (1983);
• "Bluebeard's Egg" Margaret Atwood (1983).

Section 3, "Feminist Literary Criticism"

• "`Some Day My Prince Will Come': Female Acculturation through the Fairy Tale" by Marcia K. Kieberman;
• "The Queen's Looking Glass" by Sandra M. Gilbewrt and Susan Gubar (1979);
• "Feminism and Fairy Tales" by Karen E. Rowe (1979);
• "A Second Gaze at Little Red Riding Hood's Trials and Tribulations" by Jack Zipes (1984).

• Bibliography

Editions

• 1986: Routledge, New York.