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The Most Beautiful of All: A Quantitative Approach to Fairy-Tale Femininity
- Journal of American Folklore
- American Folklore Society
- Volume 132, Number 523, Winter 2019
- pp. 36-60
- Article
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Abstract:
Feminist folklorists have long asserted that women’s bodies are represented in fairy tales differently than men’s bodies, in normative and sexist ways. By using computational approaches to analyze a corpus of canonical fairy tales, I assess these claims and establish that women’s bodies are depicted in distinctive ways in fairy tales. This finding is important for scholars interested in fairy-tale studies, gender studies, and computational approaches to folklore studies.