TY - JOUR PY - 2010 TI - Isabel Franc Revisiting and Subverting Gender Roles and Sexuality in Traditional Western Folktales JF - Utah Foreign Language Review; Vol 18 (2010): Rethinking Gender Identities KW - Gender, Sexuality, Folktales N2 - Isabel Franc opens her collection of stories and fables called Cuentos y fábulas de Lola Van Guardia with a se ction called ―De corte clásico‖ 1 in which she introduces her first three stories ―El cuento de la princesa frígida‖ 2 , ―La ejecutiva durmiente‖ 3 and ―El príncipe impotente‖ 4 . These are classical western folktales that have been altered to form a new paradigm in which the main characters are homosexual . She elegantly blends homosexuality , humor and sarcasm within the traditional structure of a fairytale creating a new viewpoint and a new literary piece . Within English literature , it is not rare to revisit traditional stories; this is a commonly practiced idea in Spain as well , but Franc offers a new viewpoint by trying to subvert gender roles adding homosexuality to the stories together with sarcasm and social critique . This paper will explore the ways in which Isabel Franc revisits and subverts gender roles in western folktales as well as how , despite maintaining a traditional frame and settings , she adds sexual elements to these stories . It will also answer the question of whether these subversive stories could be considered feminist or not .  UR - https://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/uflr/article/view/861