Sea Girl: Feminist Folktales from Around the World

by Daniel José Older and Ethel Johnston Phelps

Book Overview

In legends spanning China to Canada, Sea Girl lays out a new mythology in which women and girls prove they're more than capable of saving the day.The feminist folktales collected in Sea Girl upend any notion that women are doomed to be sentimental, meek, or submissive. In these classic tales, heroines unflinchingly wade monstrous rivers, escape ogres' nests, and outsmart desperate sharks and hungry tigers. And while defending...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558614184
• ISBN13: 9781558614185
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Feminist Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7