Feminist Fairy Tales/YMMV

Anvilicious: A book cannot be subtle with a title like Feminist Fairy Tales. Apart from the obvious feminist agenda in the rewritten stories, Barbara Walker encourages women to worship and imitate "the Mother Goddess" (even as a self-proclaimed atheist) because she believes that such worship will make people behave better, stop fighting wars, become more moral, etc. Practically every story features either some reference to the benevolence, wisdom, power, etc. of the Mother Goddess or harsh criticism of those who do not worship or sufficiently appreciate this deity.
Fair for Its Day: by its time of publication (mid-Nineties), a feminist-oriented revision of popular stories was an unusal, welcomed thing. Nowadays, some of the ideologies permeated in the rewritten stories, like women being inherently nurturing, and the heroines being quite passive even under standards of fairy tales, are seen as retrograde and not up to date to the current state of the Feminist movements.
Idiot Plot: present in several, but the one in "The Weaver" (the alleged retelling of the Arachne myth) stands as one of the worst. To wit, in this one every mentioned character, named or not, has a chance to off the oppressive villain, but no one takes it, and so they keep suffering under his tyrannical rule.
- "Snow Night" has Lord Huntsman flat-out telling the queen that she should hire him to murder Snow Night. The queen actually likes Snow Night and refuses to go along with the idea. Instead of simply ordering Lord Huntsman to be jailed for conspiring to murder the princess, she makes a deal with seven dwarfs to follow him around and not actually intervene until he's attempting to murder Snow.
Nausea Fuel: Cinder-Helle's pumpkin, mouse, etc are transformed into coach and horse etc by splashing her menstrual blood all over them. Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, this ain't.
Nightmare Fuel: The ending of Fairy Gold, in which the statue kills a man and this is presented as a good thing.
- The ending of "White Riding Hood" has the grandmother split the head of a hunter open with an axe. And then there's the other hunter, who is heavily implied to want to molest the underage White Riding Hood.
Tear Jerker: Rana's story. Sometimes love truly isn't enough.
- The fate of the separated men and women in "How the Sexes Were Separated" is pretty upsetting to consider. Both men and women are psychologically abused by Sky God and their creator, the Great Mother, does nothing but hope that one day they'll see reason and start worshiping her again over Sky God. The situation for the men is arguably even worse - they are brainwashed into hating women and are trapped in a cycle of self-loathing as they're told it's wrong to feel sexual desire, and the Great Mother shows no interest in actually intervening to protect them from their abuser (unlike women, who the story treats as more deserving of sympathy and thus are given the power of childbirth and ancient knowledge from the Great Mother).
Unfortunate Implications: From the Westernization of traditionally non-Western fairy tales (i-.e. Aladdin to "Ala Dean"), to a character named Baron Wrathchild (probably a pun on the famous Baron Rothschild, but since Rothschild was a Jew the joke can be seen as anti-Semitic), to an aspiring witch wanting to learn the means of an oracle she knows is fraudulent so she can con people better, the book is littered with those.
Values Dissonance: A lot of the feminist values in the anthology, particularly the repeated morals that women are special because they can give birth and have periods, were popular points in second wave feminism. This is seen as very exclusionary by modern standards, as it ignores women who are sterile, don't want children, are homosexual/bisexual, or are trans. It also comes across as very outdated for suggesting that pregnancy and childbirth are the most important things a woman can do.
What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: many of the rewritten tales have open mention of sexual activities (most of those in a sexual abuse context) and there is a story about magical menstrual blood. None of these references are written in a child-friendly way. Also, many of the illustrations depicts detailed frontal female nudity, in a book that seems directed to children and young teens.