"This wittily and elegantly written book by Kazimiera Szczuka is subversive. It subverts our clichéed ideas, our ossified stereotypes and our convenient habits."
"It makes us look beneath the lining of the fancy dolls which literary heroines such as Madame Bovary or Effi Briest have become, not only in the eyes of the general public. It permits us to reflect on what has been suppressed from our culture, and to discover the suppressed women's genealogy. It reveals the painful activities of power and violence where we would least expect them. This lesson in exposure and boldness will be useful to everyone who wants to know how the text of the world in which we live has been 'fabricated'." (Maria Janion)
Kazimiera Szczuka (b. 1966), literary historian and critic, academic and street feminist. She works in the Institute for Literary Studies (IBL) at the Polish Academy of Sciences and lectures in Gender Studies in Warsaw.
- Kazimiera Szczuka
Cinderella, Frankenstein and Others / Kopciuszek, Frankenstein i inne
Wydawnictwo eFKa, Krakow 2001
translation rights: Kazimiera Szczuka, rights available
136 x 203, 216 pages, paperback
ISBN 83-915460-0-4