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Quite a few [[Fairy Tales|fairy tales]] are less than friendly towards women (case in point, there is an entire fairy tale genre about heroic wife-beating). Walker sought to right the wrongs by rewriting famous and lesser-known fairy tales (as well as some well known folkloric and mythology-derived tales) to empower female readers, especially those reading in the children's section. Famous tales like ''[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]'', ''[[Cinderella (novel)|Cinderella]]'' and ''[[Jack and the Beanstalk]]'' were given a [[Gender Flip]] and/or a [[Perspective Flip]] to be told from the side of female characters.

It is arguable whether she succeeded, as described on [[Feminist Fairy Tales/YMMV|the YMMV page]]. Very often Walker missed the point of the original tale or was only familiar with the [[Flanderized]], [[Disneyfication|Disneyfied]] version of the story, which resulted in stories that read like a [[Shallow Parody]] of the original with a feminist slant. Also, there are heavy [[Values Dissonance]] between Walker's feminist principles <ref>which seem rooted on First and Second wave feminism, where great value was put on the things that made women "special" like reproductive capacity and "feminine" values being taken as seriously as "male" ones"</ref> and the ones in vogue in the ~~current{{when}}~~ state of the movement<ref>which place greater emphasis in equality, women's independence, female solidarity, and choice over reproductive rights</ref>, resulting in stories that could read superficially as "empowering" but on close examination are anything but.

It is arguable whether she succeeded, as described on [[Feminist Fairy Tales/YMMV|the YMMV page]]. Very often Walker missed the point of the original tale or was only familiar with the [[Flanderized]], [[Disneyfication|Disneyfied]] version of the story, which resulted in stories that read like a [[Shallow Parody]] of the original with a feminist slant. Also, there are heavy [[Values Dissonance]] between Walker's feminist principles <ref>which seem rooted on First and Second wave feminism, where great value was put on the things that made women "special" like reproductive capacity and "feminine" values being taken as seriously as "male" ones"</ref> and the ones in vogue in the state of the movement from the 2000s onwards<ref>which place greater emphasis in equality, women's independence, female solidarity, and choice over reproductive rights</ref>, resulting in stories that could read superficially as "empowering" but on close examination are anything but.

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