Transgressive tales: queering the Grimms

Introduction: once upon a queer time / Kay Turner and Pauline Greenhill

Whetting her appetite: what's a "clever" woman to do in the Grimms' collection? / Cristina Bacchilega

Nurtured in a lonely place: the wise woman as type in "The goose girl at the spring" / Kevin Goldstein

Queering kinship in "The maiden who seeks her brothers" / Jeana Jorgensen

"But who are you really?": ambiguous bodies and ambiguous pronouns in "Allerleirauh" / Margaret R. Yocom

A desire for death: the Grimms' Sleeping Beauty in The bloody chamber / Kimberly J. Lau

Happily ever after, according to our tastes: Jeanette Winterson's "Twelve dancing princesses" and queer possibility / Jennifer Orme

The lost sister: lesbian eroticism and female empowerment in "Snow White and Rose Red" / Andrew J. Friedenthal

Queering gender: transformations in "Peg Bearskin," "La Poiluse," and related tales / Pauline Greenhill, Anita Best, and Emilie Anderson-Grégoire

The true (false) bride and the false (true) bridegroom: "Fitcher's bird" and gendered virtue and villainy / Catherine Tosenberger

Becoming-mouse, becoming-man: the sideways growth of Princess Mouseskin / Joy Brooke Fairfield

Playing with fire: transgression as truth in Grimms' "Frau Trude" / Kay Turner

Destroying patriarchy to save it: Safdár Tawakkolí's Afghan boxwoman / Margaret A. Mills

"The grave mound": a queer adaptation / Elliot Gordon Mercer

Appendix: trans and drag in traditional folktales.