The Princesses' Emancipation - Jeanette Winterson's Rewriting of The Twelve Dancing Princesses in Sexing the Cherry

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Erfurt, language: English, abstract: “[A]s it says [we] lived happily ever after. We did, but not with our husbands” (SC 48). By this surprising statement, the twelve dancing princesses introduce themselves in Jeanette Winterson’s novel Sexing the Cherry. The main charac...