| List of Illustrations | |
| Preface | |
| I | Rewritten by Adults: The Inscription of Children's Literature | 3 |
| II | "Teaching Them a Lesson": The Pedagogy of Fear in Fairy Tales | 22 |
| III | Just Desserts: Reward-and-Punishment Tales | 51 |
| IV | Wilhelm Grimm/Maurice Sendak: Dear Mili and the Art of Dying Happily Ever After | 70 |
| V | Daughters of Eve: Fairy-Tale Heroines and Their Seven Sins | 94 |
| VI | Tyranny at Home: "Catskin" and "Cinderella" | 120 |
| VII | Beauties and Beasts: From Blind Obedience to Love at First Sight | 140 |
| VIII | "As Sweet as Love": Violence and the Fulfillment of Wishes | 163 |
| IX | Table Matters: Cannibalism and Oral Greed | 190 |
| X | Telling Differences: Parents vs. Children in "The Juniper Tree" | 212 |
| Epilogue: Reinvention through Intervention | 229 |
| Notes | 239 |
| Select Bibliography | 273 |
| Index | 289 |
