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Text messaging was intended for quick exchange of information presumably for emergencies.
For messages that need short words, the short messaging systems are supposed to be preferred. If
you are in a public place, for example, it is better for people to send text messages that talk aloud
and make others hear of their conversation. It has its advantages, sadly, there are also negative
effects.
There has been several movement, celebrities, TV shows and advertising campaigns raising the
awareness about the accidents that may be attributed to sending or reading text messages while
driving. It distracts the drivers and causes them to lose control or lose their concentration while
driving. Many states and countries have, in fact, made sending and receiving text messages while
driving illegal. The fine should actually be significant to clearly send the message.
Text messaging may actually be more dangerous than talking while driving (provided you are on
wireless) as it requires the driver to take their eyes off the road and on to the phone. It is the most
dangerous thing while driving.
The other negative effect is the poor spelling habit that it develops among young people. It is
natural for them to want to make a shorter version of the words so as to get it done quickly.
However, they carry this through even when writing formal documents. Young people are
becoming poor at spelling even simple words.
Text messaging also brings about an impersonal culture. People are substituting personal
interaction with text messaging. People say important things on their phone when they should
actually be said personally.
Culture evolves along with its people and that is something that everyone knows will happen.
What is sad is what it is transforming into. Although many will argue that this kind of a change is
just like any other change that happened in the past, radical in the beginning, common
eventually. Text messaging may be one of those but it is pretty hard to think about the time when
the phone stands separates two people even when they are sitting side by side.
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Now more than ever, teachers are feeling pressure nationwide to emphasize basic literacy skills
to counteract the stunting effects of children growing up in what can only be described as
Generation Text, which have taken a firm hold on formal academic writing skills by the time
students have reached middle school-age.
For Nebo School District 8th grade teacher in Spanish Fork, Nicole Wenczel, the pervasiveness
of electronic media in the classroom has taken on a whole new dimension in recent years.
“Kids live in a technological world. They don't feel like they have to write in complete
sentences,” she said, adding that phrases such as CYA and IDK are so entwined in the fiber of
the technologically inclined youth culture that students are increasingly bridging their electronic
literacy with academia without the awareness of appropriate context.
In the classroom, Wenczel repeatedly sees sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and
capitalization errors in routine classroom assignments that point to an over-abundance of
informal short-hand writing style, often utilized in text messages, emails, and instant messages.
Beyond that, she estimates that approximately 70% of her students carry some kind of electronic
device (such as a cell phone or MP3 player) on campus, regardless of the fact that it is
prohibited.
The proliferation of electronic paraphernalia in schools has caused districts such as Nebo to
implement a disciplinary system whereby the device is confiscated. For the first offense, the
student is permitted to retrieve the device at the end of the school day. In the event of a second
offense, the student's parents are required to retrieve it. But, if the student offends a third time
there is no such redemption and the device is lost to the student forever.
Even university students are not exempt from the Generation Text effects. Philosophy professor
Laurence Thomas, of Syracuse University, finds it disrespectful to the extreme that he will
immediately end class and exit the classroom, if he catches even a single student text messaging
during lecture.
It remains to be seen whether or not there is a direct link between the distinct text message
language used by today's youth and their formal academic language usage skills.
Linguist David Crystal takes the opposing view in his publication “Txting: The GR8 DB8”
which poses the possibility that texting actually promotes literacy through innovative use of
shorthand and clever recombination of symbols to represent words and phrases.
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Feminist Interpretation of Fairy Tales
This two-part discussion of feminist interpretations/discussions of
fairy tales took place on WMST-L in June, 1994. For a list of more
WMST-L files available on the Web, see the WMST-L File List.
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Thank you
Stacey Horstmann
Emory University
shorstm@unix.cc.emory.edu
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Stacey,
Regarding feminist analysis of fairy tales, try Madonna
Kolbenschlag, KISS SLEEPING BEAUTY GOODBYE (Harper & Row, 1988[?]), as
well as others of her works.
Peggy
Margaret Susan Thompson <thompson@maxwell.syr.edu>
Dept. of History, 145 Eggers Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1090
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If you are looking for a feminist analysis of fairy tales, I have always
found Andrea Dworkin's analysis very useful. It is in one of her older
books "Woman Hating" (Dutton, 1974). She discusses the roles that many
women play in Western fairy tales and their implications. She points out,
for example, that females are particularly desirable when they are sleeping
(some like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty are positively comatose). She
also points out that good men are likely to fall under the influence of a
powerful female and harm their children. "The good woman must be possessed.
The bad woman must be killed, or punished. Both must be nullified
(Dworkin, 1974, p. 48.)"
Rhoda Unger E-MAIL UNGER@APOLLO.MONTCLAIR.EDU
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Rosario Ferre (Puerto Rico) deals with fairy tales (Maria Sabida) and
kids songs in PAPELES DE PANDORA, published in English as THE YOUNGEST
DOLL. Ksenija Bilbija's upcoming essay in CALLALOO's special issue
on Puerto RIcan women in literature and art is well worth reading.
It is entitled "'The Youngest Doll' by Rosario Ferre: On Women,
Dolls, Golems and Cyborgs." The issue will be out later this summer.
Consuelo Lopez Springfield
cpspringf@ucs.indiana.edu
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Stacey-
Kelly
kathleen.marszycki@mail.trincoll.edu
Here are some sources that have been helpful to me. Most are not overtly
feminist in orientation but are progressive and historicist in approach.
Zipes, Jack. Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre
for Children and the Process of Civilization. NY: Methuen/Routledge, 1987.
Zipes, Jack. Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and
Fairy Tales. New York: Methuen/Routledge, 1981.
Zipes, Jack, ed. Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy
Tales in North America and England. NY: Methuen/Routledge 1986. [I
think this is the book Serena was talking about.]
Tatar, Maria. Off with Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of
Childhood. Princeton UP, 1991.
Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales. Princeton UP,
1991?
And my favorite, especially for teaching (you can use this with a whole
variety of texts from popular and "high" culture"):
Cheers,
Lisa Jadwin
jadwin@sjfc.edu
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Jack Zipes's book (he's listed as editor) is titled DON'T BET ON THE PRINCE:
COMTEMPORARY FEMINIST FAIRY TALES IN NORTH AMERICA AND ENGLAND. It contains
not only new and "revisioned" fairy tales, but a section of critical essays
on, for instance, the history of the various versions of Little Red Riding
Hood and the illustrations that accompanied them. It's very accessible to
undergraduates, and sophisticated enough for upper level women's studies
classes. As of a couple of years ago, the list price was about $12, but my
university book store had to special order it.
Sherry Linkon
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Harriet Kramer Linkin
English, New Mexico SU
e-mail: hlinkin@nmsu.edu
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You might look at _Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture_ ed.
by Joan Radner. There are two essays there on fairy tales, one by Susan
Gordon, "The Powers of the Handless Maiden" and very nice (I think) piece
by Kay Stone, "Burning Brightly: New Light From an Old Tale" in which she
discusses her own reworking of "Frau Trude" over the years. She is
herself a storyteller, and the essay shows very well how a woman might
refashion a Grimm tale through performance(s). I've used this essay with
undergraduates at several levels to good effect, alongside Anne Sexton's
poetry.
Kate Wilson
Department of Folklore and Folklife
University of Pennsylvania
kwilson@sas.upenn.edu
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As to the fairy tale that most influenced my life ... sadly, it's
Cinderella (yes, the Disney version). And no amount of reading of
feminist theory, politics, literary criticism, etc. seems to be able to
completely undo the damage. ...
Stacey Horstmann
Emory University
shorstm@unix.cc.emory.edu
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Ana Kothe
UMCP
talisman@wam.umd.edu
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This message came to my personal mail box. Since the author gave her
permission, I decided to post it to the rest of the list.
Once again thank you all for your suggestions. They keep pouring in even
as I read my mail. I'm going to begin compiling the list this evening.
Stacey Horstmann
Regarding the most recent message I've read on this list -- there is a
book from about 1988, entitled something close to *Writing Across the
Curriculum,* that has several versions of Cinderella. Actually the Dundes
casebook serves this purpose quite well. He is an accurate compiler. His
interpretations are arbitrarily Freudian (not redundant).
You might also know Dundes' casebooks on Oedipus and on Little Red Riding
Hood. I am surprised that the people on the WmSt list do not realize that
there is an entire discipline out there called "folklore," and many of us
trained and PhD'd folklorists would be happy to help you with some of your
searches. Unfortunately, it might be necessary to learn how to use some
of the old classification tools such as the Motif-Index and the Tale Type
Index.
You might wish to know that there have been several monographs written
on the international occurrences of the Cinderella tale (which actually
is, in folklore terms, "Aarne-Thompson Tale Type Number 510 A&B," but
never mind that right now) -- the monographs were done in the days of past
theoretical perspectives in folklore scholarship, but the texts are still
recoverable. See Anna Brigitta Rooth *The Cinderella Cycle* (Folklore
Fellow Communications) Lund, 1951, and Marian R. Cox *Cinderella* (PFLS
XXXI) London 1893.
I hope this is of some help -- and if you feel it has a place, you may
post it to the entire list.
Ellen J. Stekert
steke001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
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Carolyn Kost
Ckost@fair1.fairfield.edu
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First, I do understand that Disney did not invent fairy tales and that
they have a rich and varied history. Second, I also understand that
women made contributions to history beyond fairy tales. I am a
historian in training. It is strange how innocent comments can be
misconstrued over the net.
Stacey
Barchers, Suzanne I. _Wise Women: Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the
World_ Englewood, Co.: Libraries Unlimited, 1990.
Bradshaw, Gillian. _In Winter's Shadow_ New York: New American Library, 1982.
[stories told by women]
Bradley, Marion Zimmer. _The Mists of Avalon_ New York: Knopf, 1982.
[stories told by women]
Carter, Angela. _The Bloody Chamber_ New York: Harper and Row, 1979.
[rewritten fairy tales]
Carter, Angela. _The Old Wives Fairy Tale Book_ New York: Pantheon Books,
1990.
Carter, Angela. _Saints and Strangers_ New York: Viking Press, 1986.
Carter, Angela. _Strange Things Some Tiems Still Happen: Fairy Tales from
Around the World_ Boston: Faber & Faber, 1993.
Godwin, Parke _Beloved Exile_ New York: Bantam Books, 1984. [fall of
Camelot as told by Queen Guienevere]
Grahn, Judy. _The Work of a Common Woman: The Collected Poetry of Judy
Grahn, 1964-1977_ New York: St. Martin's Press, 1980 (See specifically
the poem "detroit") [writing by women]
Jackson, Ellen B. _Cinder Edna_ New York: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, 1994.
Karr, Phyllis Ann _The Idylls of the Queen_ New York: Ace Books, 1982.
[murder at Camelot as told by Sir Kay in which women characters have
their say]
McKinley, Robin. _Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast_ New York:
Harper and Row, 1978. [retelling of fairy tale]
Morressy, John. _A Voice for Princess_ New York: Ace Fantasy Books, 1986.
Morressy, John. _The Questing of Kedrigen_ New York: Ace Books, 1987.
Muller, Robin. _Tatterhood_ Richmond Hill, Ont: North Winds Press, 1984.
[for children]
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, ed. _Amazons II_ [see "the Little Robber Girl"]
Stone, Kay. "Burning Brightly: New Light From an Old Tale," from Radner,
Joan. _Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture_ Urbana, Il:
University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Stone, Kay F. "New Light from an Old Tale," in Radner, Joa, ed., _Feminist
Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture_ Urbana, Il: University of
Illinois Press, 1993.
Stone, Kay F., "Things Walt Disney Never Told Us," in Farrer, Claire,
_Women and Folklore_ Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975.
Tatar, Maria. _Off With Their Heads: Fairy Tales and the Culture of
Childhood_ Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. [analysis]
Tatar, Maria. _The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales_ Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1987.
Van Franz, Marie. _The Feminine Element in Fairy Tales_ [do not have the
complete cite]
Willard, Barbara and Moser, Barry. [On Beauty and the Beast]
Yolen, Jane _Sleeping Ugly_ New York: Coward, McCann and Geoghegan, 1981.
[retelling]
Young, Ed. _Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China_ New York:
Scholastic Inc. ,1989.
Zipes, Jack. _Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and
Fairy Tales_ Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979. [analysis]
Zipes, Jack. _Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales
in North America and England_ New York: Methuen/Routledge, 1986.
[analysis and new fairy tales]
Zipes, Jack. _The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood:
Versions of the Tale in Sociocultural Context_ South Hackey, Ma: Bergin
and Garvey Publishers, 1983. [analysis]
Zipes, Jack. _Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion: The Classical Genre
for Children and the Process of Civilization_ New York:
Methuen/Routledge, 1987. [analysis]