Ao5 Critics

• duncker - women as empowered and undomesticated
• zipes - fairy tales have the most clear and distinct representation of children’s anxieties and unconscious drives
• simpson - the heroines of these stories are struggling out of the strait-jackets of history
• bacchilega- the snow child is a masculine fantasy. when the snow child pricks her finger it symbolises menstruation so once she has aged and been a sexual object she can die
• ozum - the snow child’s death is not a killing of women but a killing of masculine representations
• de beauvoir- one is not born but rather becomes a woman