‘A Princess Is Kind of a Bad Ass’: When Feminist Moms Pick Up the Pen

Danielle Lindemann modifies some classic Disney fairy tales.

By Lisa Wade

Sometimes there’s nothing to do but take matters into our own hands. A reader who is both a mom and a sociologist decided to do just that. After discovering that one of her daughter’s books required some “subversion,” she decided to do a little editing. Here’s to one way of fighting the disempowering messages taught to little girls by capitalist icons:

This story originally appeared on Sociological Images, a Pacific Standard partner site, as “‘A Princess Is Kind of a Bad Ass’: When Feminist Moms Pick Up the Pen.”

Related Posts

Evil Genius

For the last decade, forensic psychiatrist Michael Welner has led a curious, self-funded effort to create something he calls the Depravity Standard, a crowd-sourced instrument for objectively scoring the level of evil associated with humanity's most twisted crimes. But can a scientist really define the outer edges of our morality?
See More