Kazi 88.7 Fm Book Review

This is the second of three episodes in the Diverse Voices Book Review Limited Podcast Series: Secret Lives of Fairy Tales.  Created and hosted by fairy-tale scholar and professor Kimberly J. Lau, the second episode features Ruth Bottigheimer, a fairy tales scholar and author of Grimms' Bad Girls and Bold Boys: The Moral and Social Vision of the Tales. In the episode, they discuss the hidden gender biases and historical evolution of European fairy tales, especially the silencing of women in the Grimm Brothers’ tales, and how these stories continue to shape cultural attitudes..Kimberly J. Lau is a Professor of Literature at University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale.