Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar, authors of No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the 20th Century, suggest in the New York Times that the traditional fairy tale Snow White be used "to explore alternative sexualities." In the new version, when the Queen asks the Magic Mirror who is the fairest of them all and receives the reply "Snow White," rather than deciding to kill her in jealousy, as the traditional tale has it, the Queen realizes she loves Snow White "with a love surpassing the love of man." The revised tale ends "in a blissful union between the Queen and Snow White."

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