Tag: fairy tales

• Life after the bedtime story

  I’m not sure when I was first introduced to myths -Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces in university to be sure- but I think it was when I was much younger that I became fascinated with the idea of stories which, although often fanciful, tried to explain the meaning and significance of the […]

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  July 20, 2022

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  fairy tales, Feminist thinking, Greek and Roman myths, Homer, imagination, Jess Zimmerman, Joseph Campbell, Lamia, Medusa, metaphors, myths, Nora McGreevy, Odysseus, Oedipus, Scylla and Charybdis, Sphinx, Women and other monsters

• Who’s there?

  The past is prologue, isn’t it? Or at least it can help to explain how we now think about things -whether we accept the inevitability of uncertainty or flee from it like a pestilence. Of course, nothing can ever be completely certain: the sun may not rise tomorrow and yet we must act as if […]

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  August 18, 2021

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  certainty, Cogito ergo sum, fairy tales, Hamlet, King’s College London, Lorenzo Zucca, philosophical doubt, philosophy, Psyche.co, René Descartes, Shakespeare, uncertainty

• Sheep in Wolf Clothing

  I suppose it has always happened -there’s very little that’s really new around; I still wonder why it’s necessary, though. Even through the lens of my white male privilege –my through-a-glass-darkly upbringing- I continue to wonder about these things. Why, for example, do I even have a lens? Was it necessary simply because in the […]

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  September 27, 2017

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  BBC news, boundaries, challenges, chromosomal lottery, fairy tales, famous historical women, gender barriers, Hildegard von Bingen, history, Invictus, Jeremiad, Mererani, mining, need to be a man, Tanzania, tanzanite, walls, white male privilege, William Ernest Henley

• Happily Ever After?

  I suppose we all revisit our childhoods from time to time –those memories have a special hold on us. But they are stories thick with varnish, and when analyzed too closely, soon fall apart in our hands like dreams. And yet, handled gently, stories are what we are –they are our names- and that we […]

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  April 26, 2017

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  antenatal care, fairy tales, hair, hair loss in pregnancy, historical revisionism, male dominance, medieval Europe, medieval literature, Rapunzel, sexism, women as victims, women as villains