A1 Journal article (refereed)
“Grandmas Do Worse:” The Kristevan Feminine in Contemporary Versions of Little Red Riding Hood (2023)

Wide, C. M. (2023). “Grandmas Do Worse:” The Kristevan Feminine in Contemporary Versions of Little Red Riding Hood. NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, 31(3), 249-263. https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2150306

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Publication details

All authors or editors: Wide, Carola Maria

Journal or series: NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

ISSN: 0803-8740

eISSN: 1502-394X

Publication year: 2023

Publication date: 11/12/2022

Volume: 31

Issue number: 3

Pages range: 249-263

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Publication country: Sweden

Publication language: English

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08038740.2022.2150306

Publication open access: Not open

Publication channel open access: Channel is not openly available

Abstract

Recent scholarship on intergenerational female relationships in “Little Red Riding Hood” often stresses conflict. Examining such relationships from the perspective of adolescent daughtering through Julia Kristeva’s idea of the feminine in three contemporary versions of the story, Angela Carter’s “The Werewolf”, Kiki Smith’s “Bedlam”, and Gillian Cross’s Wolf, this study demonstrates that some friction is necessary for recreating the protagonists’ grandmaternal relationship, which positively highlights female bonding and enhances the protagonists’ maturity and feminine development to embrace new beginnings with an environmental twist.

Keywords: daughters; transgenerationality; women; generations; woman's status

Free keywords: daughtering; intergenerational female relationship; the Kristevan feminine; relationality; reliance

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Ministry reporting: Yes

VIRTA submission year: 2022

JUFO rating: 2