Yolen has written many fairy tales that feature dragons, unicorns, and even angels.
In many of these, family relationships are emphasized. In her witch stories in particular, issues of central interest to women abound. In these stories, the witches themselves are usually not the main issue, a deviance from typical feminist writing in which witches represent women persecuted for their power to give life (through childbirth) by patriarchal culture. Instead, the issues.....
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