Cover -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Once Upon a Queer Time -- Faux Femininities -- 1. Whetting Her Appetite: What's a "Clever" Woman To Do in the Grimms' Collection? -- 2. Nurtured in a Lonely Place: The Wise Woman as Type in "The Goose Girl at the Spring" -- 3. Queering Kinship in "The Maiden Who Seeks Her Brothers" -- 4. "But Who Are You Really?": Ambiguous Bodies and Ambiguous Pronouns in "Allerleirauh" -- Revising Rewritings -- 5. A Desire for Death: The Grimms' Sleeping Beauty in The Bloody Chamber -- 6. Happily Ever After . . . According to Our Tastes: Jeanette Winterson's "Twelve Dancing Princesses" and Queer Possibility -- 7. The Lost Sister: Lesbian Eroticism and Female Empowerment in "Snow White and Rose Red" -- Queering the Tales -- 8. Queering Gender: Transformations in "Peg Bearskin," "La Poiluse," and Related Tales -- 9. The True (False) Bride and the False (True) Bridegroom: "Fitcher's Bird" and Gendered Virtue and Villainy -- 10. Becoming-Mouse, Becoming-Man: The Sideways Growth of Princess Mouseskin -- 11. Playing with Fire: Transgression as Truth in Grimms' "Frau Trude" -- Beyond the Grimms -- 12. Destroying Patriarchy to Save It: Safdár Tawakkolí's Afghan Boxwoman -- 13. "The Grave Mound": A Queer Adaptation -- Appendix: Trans and Drag in Traditional Folktales -- Contributors -- References -- Index.