QUOTE : This volume offers a specific moment of self-reflection for women—a gaze into the mirror through the lens of the fairy tale. It is my hope that this collection of essays will gain as much value to readers of fairy tales—those who read them to their children or to themselves, those who read them as scholars or students—as those favorite fairy tale volumes on their shelves, those books with faded ink and illustrations. Perhaps you, as I do, have on your shelves a cherished fairy tale book, one with a blue fabric cover and broken, beaten-up spine. Perhaps this book will gain a place beside it.