'Fearless Girls' turns the tables on hero worship with a celebration of the forgotten heroines of folktales from around the world.
Tired of reading her daughter fairytales where the hero always saved the day, Kathleen Ragan set out to rescue the world's long lost heroines. She tracked down fearless girls and warrior women who ride into battle, save villages from monsters, figure out riddles and magic rituals, outwit fickle men and evil kings, tame marauding tigers, rule wisely over kingdoms, make prophecies and call down storms.
Their stories were always there - we just never got to read them. Thanks to the censorship of Victorian anthologists, we all grew up thinking of a heroine as the one who wears fabulous frocks but never dirties her fingernails in a fight, who expires in a glass casket until revived by a magic kiss, and whose role in life is to wait prettily and with infinite patience to be rescued by the brave and handsome hero.
But there was a time when heroines held their own. 'Fearless Girls' puts them back in the spotlight where they belong.
