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Spindle, shuttle, and scissors: Ambiguous power in the Grimm brothers' tales

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Celia Catlett Anderson teaches children's literature in the English Department of Eastern Connecticut State University. She has published articles on children's literature in theJournal of Popular Culture, Children's Literature Association Quarterly, and edited a special section on style and language for the Fall 1985ChLAQ. She is chairing a session on Nonsense in Children's Literature at the 1986 Modern Language Association Convention.

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Anderson, C.C. Spindle, shuttle, and scissors: Ambiguous power in the Grimm brothers' tales. Child Lit Educ 17, 226–232 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01131446

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