Showing posts with label damsels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label damsels. Show all posts

August 30, 2021

Released --> Damsels Overcome

 
Here is where to buy! 
 
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Apple Store  for epub

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Amazon  > Kindle, paperback and hardcover
 
 order by my name, book title, or ISBNs
Hardcover - 987-942070-08-5
Paperback - 987-947020-05-4



Damsels have values, more than known and that we hear and read in folktales, legends, fairytales and news today.


May 5, 2021

Understanding of males as Knights in Shining Armor

One of my e-mail readers commented on a statement about my attitude in a book I'm writing in a way that I did not expect. The male's response was about my understanding of males, and who they were, and why they do what they do, which did surprise me? I was not commenting what a male thinks, not exactly.

I am commenting about my attitude about the 'Knight in Shining Armor' assuming they are all males, which is not true.

Anyway here is my take of the knight or prince charming.

From the legends about the Knights who roamed Europe commissioned by the Kings of England; the Knight has ravished dragons of one sort or another (for treasure) to saved a damsel or is this slaying really give fame to himself. My comment came from my attitude, 'The Knight slays the dragon to secure the jewels for himself.'  (jewels = skills)

 

Sure, some damsel want 'saved'; although most damsels desire to do their own work. To be saved by a Knight is servitude because the maiden or matron becomes the victim in a triangle --> saved, victim, indebted.  The tale Spider Weaver in my book Damsels Overcome; if she does not do her saving another danger comes along.


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Also, as a woman, female, I am balanced and part of the man, male; I have my knight. As man has all his jewels, and does not need to slay dragons guarding 'jewels', which I view as using another person's skills as your own. The King uses the Knight.

As a damsel: she can do her bidding, to be saved or not to be saved.

January 21, 2021

Damsels Overcome soon in bookstores

 

Both males and females are important in social norms. I'm making a case about the male narratives that dominate - take the fable Turtle and the Hare; all characters males. Masculine pronouns lock us into male narratives and male norms. 


DAMSELS OVERCOME has 20 folktales from different times and many countries. Included are blurbs about my identity and dispute with the narratives about the damsels who appeared in these traditional male-dominated dialogues written in literature and folklore from the 6th to 18th centuries.

Launch date is August 30, 2021.