Resources

Besides the many examples in literature and film, I have listed below some useful books and websites on subjects related to Girls Underground, including relevant folklore and mythology. You can also read an interview I did with Paper Tape magazine.

SUGGESTED READING:

Boyer, Ronald. “Entering the Other World of Oz: The Threshold Passage of Dorothy Gale.“
Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run With the Wolves. Ballantine Books, 1996.
Grimm, Jacob, et al. The Annotated Brothers Grimm. WW Norton & Co, 2004.
Keeper, Sam. “Creating as the World Falls Down.” Storming the Ivory Tower.
McGovern, Bridget. “Suburban Fantasy, Gender Politics, plus a Goblin Prom: Why Labyrinth is a Classic.” Tor.com
Ragan, Kathleen. Fearless Girls, Wise Women, and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. WW Norton & Co, 2000.
Tatar, Maria. Secrets Beyond the Door : The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives. Princeton University Press, 2004.
Tatar, Maria. The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. Princeton University Press, 2003.
TV Tropes. Down the Rabbit Hole.
Vaclavik, Kiera. Uncharted Depths: Descent Narratives in English and French Children’s Literature, Legenda, 2010.
Valente, Catherynne M. “Follow the Yellow Brick Road: Katabasis and the Female Hero in Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and The Nutcracker Ballet,” presented at Wiscon, Feminism in SF/F Convention, 2005. [This is the closest discussion of what could be seen as the Girls Underground archetype that I have ever seen outside my own work. A fascinating essay comparing these three popular stories to the myths of Persephone and Inanna.]
Zipes, Jack. The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood. Routledge, 1993.

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