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Pill Pod 132 - Fairy Tale Feminism

PlasticPills - Philosophy & Critical Theory Podcast

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Folktales and Fairy Tales

The study of folktales and fairy tales inspired a lot of structuralism, which is still very popular today. Once you start kind of getting into the images and symbols and tracing them back to where they came from, that's when the reading starts to open up and become very rich. So just reading these stories, the interesting fun kind of quaint or exotic. Then once you start to sort of study them and look at these broader patterns, you start to realize, hey, we can actually learn something about people by reading these things"

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