{"title":"Fabulously (in)dependent women","authors":"Claudia Chellini","doi":"10.1515/fabula-2025-0018","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Are female figures in fairy tales full of courage, intelligence, resourcefulness, and perseverance or are they lacking autonomy and are incapable of taking control of their own lives? In the context of a research-project on the Italian popular traditional fairy tales (Thompson 1946), a substantial difference was revealed with respect to the entirely passive protagonist. The two tale types analysed ( Cinderella ATU 510A and The Clever Farmgirl ATU 875) show two intelligent girls who make a choice and take responsibility for their own desires using their resources in an active way.","PeriodicalId":42252,"journal":{"name":"FABULA","volume":"66 3-4","pages":"313-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2025-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"FABULA","FirstCategoryId":"0","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1515/fabula-2025-0018","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"FOLKLORE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Are female figures in fairy tales full of courage, intelligence, resourcefulness, and perseverance or are they lacking autonomy and are incapable of taking control of their own lives? In the context of a research-project on the Italian popular traditional fairy tales (Thompson 1946), a substantial difference was revealed with respect to the entirely passive protagonist. The two tale types analysed ( Cinderella ATU 510A and The Clever Farmgirl ATU 875) show two intelligent girls who make a choice and take responsibility for their own desires using their resources in an active way.
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Fabula is a medium of discussion for issues of all kinds which are of interest to international folk narrative research. The journal contains eight divisions: Articles, Minor Contributions, Research Reports and Conference Reports, News, Projects and Queries, Reviews, Bibliographical Notes, and Books Received. Principal themes of the article section are the study of popular narrative traditions in their various forms (fairy tales, legends, jokes and anecdotes, exempla, fables, ballads, etc.), the interrelationship between oral and literary traditions as well as the contemporary genres. Interest focuses on Europe and overseas countries which are influenced by European civilization, but still, there is quite a number of contributions from other culture areas.