Enchanted maidens : gender relations in Spanish folktales of courtship and marriage
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TextPrinceton, NJ Princeton University Press c1990Description: xiii, 251p.; ill.; appendix; bibliog. refs.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0691028524
- GR230 .T34 1990
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1 Introduction. 2 The context. 3 "The innocent slandered maiden". 4 Maidens and thieves. 5 "Snow White". 6 "Cinderella". 7 Disenchanting a princess. 8 The animal groom. 9 "Blancaflor". 10 A cross-cultural perspective. 11 Conclusions. Appendix: List of supplementary tales
'...His study shows how men and women use the tales to grapple with some of the contradictions found in gender relations in their culture, which conditions men to be sexually assertive and to marry virgins and which teaches women to fear the men who court them. Taggart interprets the male-female dialogue voiced through storytelling by linking the content of specific tales to the life experiences and gender of the storyteller. Men and women, he finds, carry out an exchange of ideas by retelling the same stories and altering the plots and characters to express their respective views of courtship....'
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