The hunter and the wolf : male gender roles in little red riding hood

• Main Author: Au, Dawn
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities::Literature::English
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/44829
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Perrault’s appropriation of the Little Red Riding Hood tale, which was originally told by female peasants to socialise their daughters into an exclusively feminine tradition, resulted in a written version incorporating the patriarchal upper class ideology of the French court. By re-envisioning the f...