Stine Jensen (b. 1972) is a Danish-Dutch philosopher and writer who is known for her TV appearances and has written several books for adults and children. She won a Zilveren Griffel for a children’s book about the big important questions of life. She is also a literary critic for NRC Handelsblad. Her earlier publications are The Desire Machine and Women in Pop Music.
(Prometheus, 2002, 336 pages)
Twentieth-century western culture is full of examples of erotic relationships between dark-haired apes and blonde women: there is a striking connection between woman and ape not only in movies and novels, but also in scientific practice of primatology. In this fascinating study, literary theorist Stine Jensen shows how the roles of ape, woman and man, too, have changed fundamentally throughout the last century.
(Kluitman, 2017, 160 pages)
This is a book that helps children to find words for big emotions, for when you have big, big feelings, but not the words to describe them.
