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Podcast: In Conversation: An OUP Podcast
Episode: Carol Dyhouse, "Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Description: Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending, a solution to life's problems. But over the next fifty years women's lives were transformed, not by the magic wand of a fairy godmother, nor by marrying princes, but by education, work, birth control--and feminism. However, while widening opportunities for women were seen as progress, feminists were regularly caricatured as man-haters, cast in the role of ugly sisters, witches or wicked fairies in the fairy-tale.Carol Dyhouse's new book Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen (Oxford UP, 2021) is...