Part 1. Contemporary Subversions of Gender in Fairy Tales -- Part 2. The Darkness of Contemporary Fairy Tales -- Part 3. Other Contemporary Subversions of Genre through Fairy Tales. "For centuries, fairy tales and folktales have given us- children and adults- the opportunity to escape from reality by transporting us to magical worlds of flying broomsticks, enchanted forests, spells, ogres, talking animals, princes, princesses, castles and dragons"-- |