Session Details

Saturday, 27 December

135. Princess Culture Industry

8:45–10:00 p.m., Golden Gate 3, Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Children’s Literature

Presiding: June S. Cummins, San Diego State Univ.; Catherine Tosenberger, Univ. of Winnipeg

1. “The Princess and the Policeman: Negotiating Gender and Power in Fairy Tales,” Crys Benedicks, Wabash Coll.

2. “Revisiting the Exotic: Manipulating the Postcolonial Princess in Western Discourse,” Natalie Wall, Univ. of Calgary

3. “Disney Princesses, Barbie Princesses: Seventies Feminism versus Mid-Century Nostalgia,” Lisa Marie Orr, Utica Coll.

4. “Passive Princesses? Perversions of the Fairy-Tale Form in Princess Culture,” Helen Pilinovsky, California State Univ., San Bernardino

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