The Heroine with 1001 Faces Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for FOCUS Zukunftspreis (2010) Archbishop of PhiladelphiaWhat if we

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The Heroine with 1001 Faces Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for FOCUS Zukunftspreis (2010) Archbishop of PhiladelphiaWhat if weThe Heroine with 1,001 Faces dismantles the cult of warrior heroes, revealing a secret history of heroinism at the very heart of our collective cultural imagination. Maria Tatar, a leading authority on fairy tales and folklore, explores how heroines, rarely wielding a sword and often deprived of a pen, have flown beneath the radar even as they have been bent on redemptive missions. Deploying the domestic crafts and using words as weapons, they have