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Gender, Science, and Two Cultures in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s The Ruins of Isis (1978)

open access: yesZeitschrift für Fantastikforschung, 2022
Willkommen auf dem Planeten Isis, früher bekannt als Cinderella. Dies ist der Ort, an dem Marion Zimmer Bradley ihr Gedankenexperiment des spekulativen Science-Fiction-Romans The Ruins of Isis (1978) angesiedelt hat.
Cora Zoé Övermann
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Winged horses, rascals and discourse referents

open access: yesTheoria, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper discusses some remarks Kaplan made in ‘Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice’ concerning empty names. I show how his objections to a particular view involving descriptions derived from Ramsification can be avoided by a nearby alternative framed in terms of discourse reference.
Andreas Stokke
wiley   +1 more source

Fairy tales, or unfair tails?! : breaking the glass slipper and the need for modern retelings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Mestrado em Estudos InglesesCinderella was told a whole pea pot full of lies in those days… about Prince Charming and living happily ever after. ~ Thelly Reahm Cinderella é um dos contos de fadas mais célebres de todos os tempos.
Salgado, Dora Isabel Toscano Ferreira
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STORY OF CINDERELLA AND TAJIK-PERSIAN NARRATIVE OF YUSUF AND ZULAIKHA: RE-INTERPRETING THE “DEEP STRUCTURES” WITH REFERENCE TO CURRENT SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2017
“Rags to riches” as an invariant “deep” structure of many stories about restored dignity and status has been in universal literary use since the eminent version of “Cinderella” in the Grimm brothers’ collection of fairy-tales. So has the “deep” structure
Yu. S. Serenkov, Yu. M. Radzhabova
doaj   +1 more source

Healthcare‐Related Predictors of Postnatal Contraception Uptake: A Cross‐Sectional Study

open access: yesReproductive, Female and Child Health, Volume 5, Issue 4, December 2026.
ABSTRACT Background and Aims Postnatal contraception (PNC) care is an integral element of a comprehensive public health offer in the weeks and months following a pregnancy. The aim of this cross‐sectional survey study was to examine experiences of PNC care in relation to healthcare professional (HCP) engagement during and after pregnancy in an English ...
Malcolm Moffat   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cinderella [PDF]

open access: yes, 1972
Cinderella or The Little Glass Slipper, is a folk tale embodying a myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward. Thousands of variants are known throughout the world.
Otterbein University Theatre and Dance Department
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Intersecting language and society: a prototypical study of Cinderella story translations in China

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
The stories of Cinderella, highlighting the theme of kindness, are classic children’s literature worldwide. In China, the translation of the Cinderella stories has been listed in the Chinese textbook series launched in 2004, exerting a profound influence
Yanjin Liu, Dechao Li
doaj   +1 more source

Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

open access: yesGender &History, Volume 38, Issue 3, Page 870-881, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Roles in Reconstructed Fairy Tales: Interstellar Cinderella

open access: yesCurrent Perspectives in Social Sciences
In classic fairy tales, which function as powerful cultural narratives, it is gender that determines the lifestyles and activities of the characters; while heroic male characters are more active and mostly described as fighters or rescuers, females are ...
Meryem Odabaşı
doaj   +1 more source

Waitin' on the Ghost of Tom Joad: The Neoliberal Reconstruction of the Great Depression Years in Cinderella Man

open access: yesMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2018
This paper intends to examine the political rationality of neoliberalism through the Depression Era film Cinderella Man (Ron Howard, 2005). While neoliberalism has been widely mapped out, critiqued, and debated in a host of academic disciplines, the ...
Fabián Orán Llarena
doaj   +1 more source

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