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Women in Myth and Their Stories Retold: A Beginner's Guide to ...

Jo's piece examines how myths, in this case the Medusa myth, perpetuated negative narratives about women.

The forgotten women of Greek mythology are getting their own stories

Feminist retellings of Greek myths are seeing a surge in popularity, with not only Miller's Circe but a host of other novels — Pat Barker's The ...

13 Novels That Reclaim the Stories of the Women of Greek Mythology

13 Novels That Reclaim the Stories of the Women of Greek Mythology · Atalanta by Jennifer Saint · The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood · Clytemnestra ...

Anyone know any women in mythology that were misunderstood?

In Greek and Roman myth, women tend to be jealous, frivolous, and petty. However, we know that women had entire cults of their own, with their ...

10 Classics, Myths, and Fairytales Brilliantly Reimagined by Women

Respect the classics. Angela Carter was the fairy godmother of feminist retellings; each story in The Bloody Chamber is decadent, gothic ...

Which Feminist Greek Myth Retelling Should I Read?

The six examples above — Atalanta, Clytemnestra, Medusa, Medea, Alcestis, and Phaedra — only represent a subset of the examples I could find ...

Badass bitches of mythology - Lauren Writes - WordPress.com

... the gendered way these stories have been told and retold. Anyway, my ... Her story perfectly embodies the multifaceted nature of women ...

11 Books About Misunderstood Women in History and Mythology

From “The Serpent Queen” Catherine De Medici, evil stepmother Kaikeyi in the Ramayana, and the seductive, church-destroying Anne Boleyn, the few women who have ...

How books reimagining Greek myths through female characters ...

Prominent among the latter is Natalie Haynes, whose The Children of Jocasta, a retelling of Oedipus and Antigone, came out in 2017, and was ...

Jennifer Saint on Greek Myth Retellings | The Blog - The Novelry

Jennifer Saint knows about writing a Greek mythology book in the 21st century. The Sunday Times number 1 bestselling author of Ariadne, Elektra ...

The Women of Greek Myths Are Finally Talking Back

Novels that take on the marginalized or vilified women in mythology are flooding bookstores and reigniting questions about who gets to tell these stories, and ...

Mythical Retellings: Reimagining the women of Greek Myth - YouTube

Amid the recent popularity of fiction inspired by Greek mythology, authors Claire Heywood, Jennifer Saint, and Susan Stokes-Chapman discuss ...

TO READ: Centering Women in Greek Myths (for a Change)

Greek Myths: A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins, with drawings by Chris Ofili (Pantheon, 336 pages). By Celia McGee. At first, we're the ...

Retelling the Irish myths from the perspectives of the women by ...

Inspired by the Irish myths and over 25 years of exploration, she has written back the women's perspective.

Why Are So Many New Books Feminist Retellings of Greek Myths?

Titles like A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes, Ariadne by Jennifer Saint, or The Women of Troy by Pat Barker are some of the feminist takes on these classic ...

Feminist Retellings Of Greek Myths (51 books) - Goodreads

Feminist Retellings Of Greek Myths · 1. Circe · 2. Clytemnestra · 3. A Thousand Ships · 4. The Penelopiad · 5. The Silence of the Girls (Women of Troy, #1) · 6.

Greek Mythology - Brilliant Retellings - Readwithmims

I've read this one relatively recently and loved it! What I love about Haynes' books is how she shifts the retellings to focus more on women.

Jennifer Saint: Giving Women in Greek Mythology a Voice

Bestselling author Jennifer Saint retells the untold stories of women in Greek myth from a feminist perspective and shares her passion for ...

The rise of mythical retelling - The Oxford Student

Feminist writers have sought to question and reimagine the stories of mythical women: Circe, Pandora and so on. Works like Madeline Miller's The ...

TÁIN: The Women's Stories - Irish Myths Retold - Karina Tynan

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