Liz Grauerholz, an associate professor of sociology, teamed with Lori Baker-Sperry, an assistant professor of women's studies at Western Illinois University and a former Purdue graduate student, to ...

In many of the old fairy tales-simple, innocent children’s stories such as “Cinderella”- the moral was enough to give you nightmares. A woman- if she is beautiful, and she is young- can escape the ...

Children around the world love fairy tales. These stories of magic and monsters, handsome princes and damsels in distress, capture the imagination and open the mind to possibilities. To grown-ups, ...

Oh the magic of being a child where nothing's too hard to believe. Their imaginations take them to fairy tale places that are as real as their own back yard. All grown up my life reads nothing like a ...

There are perhaps no words more enchanting, whimsical, and promising than “Once upon a time.” As Gemini author and academic Jack Zipes maintains, “Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and ...

Bavarian fairy tales going viral? Last week, the Guardian reported that five hundred unknown fairy tales, languishing for over a century in the municipal archive of Regensburg, Germany, have come to ...

The original Grimm tales paid homage to wicked women who dish (and receive) the creepy, uncanny, and grotesque — after all, when you really look at those happy endings, fairy tales are some of the ...

You grew up hearing fairy tales that began with "Once upon a time..." and usually ended with a royal couple riding off into the sunset. But what happens when someone decides to mess with happily ever ...