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So, in bitch #17, there's a brief mention of:

Catherine Orenstein's highly entertaining and intellectually keen Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: The History of a Fairy Tale from the Forest to the Bedroom {BASIC BOOKS} parses the multiple meanings of the many variations of our culture's most familiar narrative. . .

Which isn't quite the right title (the sub should be "Sex, Morality, and the Evolution of a Fairy Tale"), but I'm hardly one to cast stones.

Harvard Book Store has an informative description, which you'd expect for what tuition costs:

In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked Catherine Orenstein reveals for the first time the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities and philosophical underpinnings of Red Riding Hood's epic journey to Grandmother's house--and how, from the nursery on, the story influences our view of the world. Beginning with its first publication as a cautionary tale on the perils of seduction, written in reaction to the licentiousness of the court of Louis XIV, Orenstein traces the many and various lives the tale has lived since then, from its appearance in modern advertisements for cosmetics and automobiles to the inspiration it brought to poets like Anne Sexton and its starring role in pornographic films. In Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked, Red appears as seductress, hapless victim, riot grrrrl, femme fatale, and even she-wolf, as Orenstein shows how, through centuries of different guises, the story has served as a barometer of social and sexual mores pertaining to women. Full of fascinating history, generous wit, and intelligent analysis, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked proves that the story of one young girl's trip through the woods continues to be one of our most compelling modern myths.

Amazon's editorial review is similar, and even name-checks Charles Perrault, which I felt was trying too hard.

The magazine also features an interview with Lynn Peril about her upcoming book, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons, as well as her zine Mystery Date.

And god help us all, there's a site for the book. Don't think that was mentioned in the interview. Oddly, what was mentioned, in Lynn's very first answer, was:

I also always wanted to do the type of writing that I do now because I really hated it when people wrote about popular culture in a really academic sense. If you want to write about, you know, the meaning of Dobie Gillis, write about the meaning of Dobie Gillis. Don't write about what Derrida would've said about Dobie Gillis.

I'm not ripping things off from them on purpose. It's just. . . happening.