The Virginia Quarterly Review, July 1st, 2005
Spinning Straw Into Gold: What Fairy Tales Reveal About the Transformations in a Woman's Life, by Joan Could. Random House, February 2005. $25.95 Joan Gould's summaries of fairy tales, while accurate, shed no new light on the stories. Instead, her generalizations and conclusions may irate more than enlighten. For instance, she states that "Most men are unsure of their own taste and so they wait for a young woman ... to give out signals that she's . . . desirable and desirous of ... handling life for both of them." Her theory on the Cinderella' story is that her slipper (shoe) is a symbol of a...
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