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Mythic Maidens & Femme Fae-tales

Ever read Homer and wish the female characters had more agency and not just used as mere plot devices? Did you think Penelope should have just poisoned her suitors and became Queen of Ithaca herself? Cassandra should have shunned those non-believers and ridden off into the sunset with the Amazons? Enter these feminist retellings of classic myths and folk tales. There still may not be a happy ending, but at least our heroines aren't doormats.

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  • Book, 2018New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — Miller
  • Book, 2022New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2022] — Kirby SS
  • Book, 2021New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2021] — Haynes
  • Book, 2022New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — Deane
  • Book, 2021New York : Flatiron Books, 2021. — Saint
  • Book, 2022New York, NY : Redhook, 2022. — Patel
  • Book, 2022New York, NY : Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — Tan
  • Book, 2023New York, NY : Alcove Press, 2023. — Sheppe
  • Book, 2021New York : TorDotCom/Tom Doherty Associates, 2021. — Harrow
  • 1st book of the Lunar Chronicles and features a cyborg Cinderella. Continue the series to meet other characters like Scarlet (Red Riding Hood), Cress (Rapunzel), and Winter (Snow White).
    Book, 2013New York : Square Fish, 2013 — Meyer
  • Book, 2019New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019. — MacLau SS
  • Also by the same author: "The Silence of the Girls" - a novel told in the perspective of the women in the Greek camps during the Trojan War.
    Book, 2021New York : Doubleday, [2021] — Barker
  • Book, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2023] — Casati
  • Nonfiction. A collection of essays exploring femininity through mythic monsters.
    Book, 2021Boston, MA : Beacon Press, [2021] — 155.333 Zim