le g.alilj.}l<i{lft".ti?iu11 Gender in FaifY Tages and The Cle yer Princess ff3deke Tanigtschi Diana Coles's The Clever Princess is a feminist fantasy which sheds light on the stereotyped gender roles found in almost all fairy taies. The most important object of the story is to create a new type of heroine completely different from the traditional kind who, like Cindereila and Snow White, merely waits for a mab/prkice to help them escape from the circumstance they are in. In this paper I discuss gender in old fairy tales, comparing them with The Clever Princess, ard clarify how the feminist story criticizes the stereotype of the heroine and creates a new role model. I also discuss its raison d'6tre and problems in additior. 38