Politically Correct Bedtime Stories: Expanded edition with a new story: The duckling that was judged on its personal merits - Couverture rigide

Garner, James Finn

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 028563223X ISBN 13 : 9780285632233

Editeur : Souvenir Press Ltd, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Garner James Finn

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Anyone who is in tune with the times knows that Snow White took refuge with seven vertically challenged men, that Little Red Riding Hood, her grandma and the cross-dressing wolf set up an alternative household based on mutual respect and cooperation, that Goldilocks was a rogue biologist who specialised in the study of anthropomorphic bears, that the Frog Prince was not a prince at all, but a middle-aged, balding real estate developer with plans to drain the pond, and that the Emperor was not naked, but merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle. You didn't know that? You mean that you or your children were lulled to sleep by classic bedtime stories that are discriminatory, prejudiced and demeaning to witches, animals, giants, dwarfs, goblins and fairies everywhere? Now at last you can remedy this cultural defect by reading 'Politically Correct Bedtime Stories', and find out what really happened when Jack climbed the beanstalk, when Cinderella went to the ball and when the wolf tried to blow down the houses of the Three Little Pigs. After all, if you were brought up on all that sexist, racist, sizeist, ethnocentrist reading matter, then you most certainly need to be made aware of the dangers, in these sensitive modern times, of expressing any kind of opinion at all.

Revue de presse :

One of those works which cleave an author instantly to your heart... It is beautiful. It demolishes, in few but elegant words, a dozen kinds of silliness. --Libby Purves, The Times

Not only essential reading for adults of all ages, but also the wisest, funniest, most thoughtful thing yet written on the subject of PC. --The Observer

The definitive, non-exploitative, non-patriarchalist (dontcha hate doing that to the kids?) ... collection of bedtime stories. --Daily Telegraph

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Souvenir Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 028563223X
• ISBN 13: 9780285632233
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 89