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Who's the Fairest of Them All? Defining and Subverting the Female Beauty Ideal in Fairy Tale Narratives and Films through Grotesque Aesthetics
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In this paper, the authors present a survey of women in the field of psychoanalytic psychology, focusing on the effects of gender on women's ability to cope with violence.Abstract:
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ii Acknowledgments
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iii Table
of
Contents
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iv List
of
Figures
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viii Introduction
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1 Chapter
1
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20 1
How
History,
Typology
and
Psychoanalytic
Scholarship
Have
Maintained
the Beauty
Ideal
as
a
Dominant
Presence
in
Female
Relationships
in
Fairy
Tales
......
20 1.1
The
Medieval
Basis
for
the
Dominant
Presence
of
the
Beauty
Ideal
for
Women in
Literary
Fairy
Tales
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22 1.1.1
How
the
Written
Tales
Were
Influenced
by
a
Medieval
Association
between
Beauty and
Good
Morality
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22 1.1.2
The
Historic
Reality
of
Death
in
Childbirth
and
its
Influence
in
Creating
the
Cruel, Envious
Stepmother
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25 1.1.3
How
the
Medieval
Approach
to
Marriage
and
Beauty
Establishes
a
Power Hierarchy
for
Women
in
Fairy
Tales
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26 1.1.4
How
a
Combination
of
the
Medieval
Beauty
Ideal,
Physical
Reward
and Punishment,
and
Marriage
Enforce
Violent
Female
Relationships
in
Versions
of “Cinderella”
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27 1.1.5
The
Lack
of
Correlation
in
Male
Characters
between
Appearance,
Violence
and Morality
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30 1.2
How
the
Archetype
of
the
Mother
and
the
Typology
of
a
Tale
Encourage
Envy and
Conflict
Centered
around
the
Beauty
Ideal
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32 1.2.1
Exploring
the
Mother
Archetype
and
its
Influence
on
the
Moral
and
Aesthetic Splitting
of
Female
Characters
into
Two
Extremes
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33 1.2.2
How
Envy
and
Violence
Based
on
the
“Snow
White”
Typology
Reinforce
Beauty
as the
Source
of
Power
and
Center
of
Conflict
in
Female
Relationships
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35 1.3
How
the
Perceived
Audience
of
the
Tales
and
Psychoanalytic
Scholarship
Have Legitimized
the
Use
of
Violence
and
Punishment
of
Female
Envy
over
Beauty
...............
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