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A review by daniellesalwaysreading
Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit
5.0
A lovely story made even better because it to counteracts the consumerism, elitism, sexism, and everything else that Disney's Cinderella encouraged in us without our even knowing it.
Absent from this version-Marriage will solve all your problems and women should only aspire to marriage, beauty on the outside proves beauty on the inside, beauty is all you need in life, hard work is for chumps, labor is beneath you, being rich will make you fulfilled as long as you are beautiful.
Present-magic, a powerful and helpful witch, hard work pays off, women are friends rather than pitted against each other for the love of a man, girls can be friends with boys, Cinderella has skills and goals, kindness to animals, bodily autonomy.
Absent from this version-Marriage will solve all your problems and women should only aspire to marriage, beauty on the outside proves beauty on the inside, beauty is all you need in life, hard work is for chumps, labor is beneath you, being rich will make you fulfilled as long as you are beautiful.
Present-magic, a powerful and helpful witch, hard work pays off, women are friends rather than pitted against each other for the love of a man, girls can be friends with boys, Cinderella has skills and goals, kindness to animals, bodily autonomy.