AO3 - TBC collection Flashcards
(42 cards)
What year was TBC released?
1979
In what year did Carter travel to Japan?
1969
How/why did Carter go to Japan?
She escaped her failing marriage and used money that she won from a pretigious literary award to travel there.
What were her two key takeaways from her travel?
She worked in a bar as a hostess and witnessed the predatory behaviour of men.
She visisted the Kabuki theatre where women were played by men and recognised that men were the only ones there to create womanly desire.
What year did Bruno Bettelheim write his psychoanalytic account of fairytales ‘The Uses of Enchantment: the meaning and Importance of Fairy Stories’?
1976
What were his most important points?
- That animals were used as a representative of repressed desires in fairy stories
- Fairy tales are used to process our own fears
- Beleived that children could use fairy stories to understand existential problems
- BUT since he failed to recognise the gender biases within these tales, he also failed to recognise why certain existential problems need to be dealt with in the first place.
What did Carter say that she was interested in with regards to animals?
‘I’m interested in human beings’ projection upon animals of negative qualities’
What year was The Sex Discrimination Act set into place?
1975 - it made discrimination in the workplace unlawful
In what year was marital rape recognised as a crime?
1992
In what year was the contraceptive pill made available to SINGLE women?
1974
What conference was held in 1970?
The first National Women’s Liberation conference, where feminist activist presented.
When TBC was released, what was the gender pay gap like?
1979 - Women were still paid 60% less than men on average
What year was the Birth Control pill FIRST made available to married women?
1960
What year was the Abortion Act?
1967
What year did the protests at the Royal Festival Hall about the Miss World Competition occur?
1970
Why were these protest significant?
One of their mottos was ‘Stop treating women like pieces of meat’ - TCOW
When was the term ‘domestic violence’ first used?
1973
What year did Charles Perrault release ‘Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals’?
1697
What are the key points/moments of Perrault’s ‘Bluebeard’?
- he calls it a cautionary tale about the dangers of curiosity
- contrasts TBC, where it is her curiosity that saves her
- a tale about a wealthy man of rank with a hideously ugly blue beard, who marries then murders a series of wives
- soon after marrying a young girl, he leaves and gives his wife the keys for all doors but forbidding her to go in one of the rooms
- she disobeys and finds the bodies of his former wives
- she buys herself enough time for her brothers to come and rescue her, killing Bluebeard
What are the key points/moments of Perrault’s ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’?
- in TLOFTHOL, the female vampire seems to take on the role of both innocent princess and the evil queen
- like the evil queen in the original, the vampire must satisfy her cannibalistic needs
- however, the image of the young soldier coming to the vampire’s house and ‘rescuing’ her is reminiscent of the prince going to save the sleeping princess
- described as the ‘beautiful somnambulist’, the vampire is clearly similar to the princess, although Carter explores a new character, one that is neither wholly good, nor wholly evil.
What are the key points/moments of Perrault’s ‘Little Red Riding Hood’?
- wolf talks to little red riding hood asking her where she’s going
- she tells him and continues to her grandmother’s house
- wolf eats and then impersonates the grandmother
- little red riding hood gets into bed with her ‘grandmother’ and is then eaten by the wolf
- Carter’s story could be in relation to ‘to live in the passive case is to die in the passive case, that is to be killed’
- contrasting Perrault’s moral that ‘Children, especially attractive, well bred young ladies, should never talk to strangers, for if they should do so, they may well provide dinner for a wolf.’
- Carter is suggesting that passivity cannot save women from dangerous situations, and by teaching children to simply identify and avoid danger cannot save them from ‘cunning’ and ‘ferocious’ predators
- the young girl acknowledges her own beastliness, and in that way establishes a sense of agency
When was the Brothers Grimm ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ written/published?
1812
What are the key points/moments of the tale?
- princess cursed
- stabs her finger on a spindle and falls asleep for 100 years
- everyone in the castle freezes in time with her, like how everything in Carter’s vampire’s house seems suspended in time
- although, whilst it is the vampire’s death and transformation into a human that revives the surroundings, in the original Sleeping Beauty is revived by true love’s kiss, which wakes up the whole kingdom
- In Carter’s version, the soldier putting ‘his mouth to the wound’ makes true love symbolic of the opposition between humanity and the supernatural
What year was Brothers Grimm ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ released?
1812
