TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taggart,James M.
TI  - Enchanted Maidens: Gender Relations in Spanish Folktales of Courtship and Marriage 
SN  - 9780691226927
AV  - GR230 
U1  - 398/.355/0946 20
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Courtship
KW  - Spain
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Sex role
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aarne-Thompson tale type
KW  - Ahigal
KW  - Arroyomolinos
KW  - Barrado
KW  - Barry, Herbert III
KW  - Bazagona
KW  - Becedas
KW  - Cabal, Constantino
KW  - Cabezuela
KW  - Christ
KW  - Cortés Vázquez, Luis
KW  - Cox, Marian Roalfe
KW  - Donjuanismo
KW  - Dundes, Alan
KW  - Falassi, Alessandro
KW  - García y Garcia, Segundo
KW  - Grimms, the (brothers)
KW  - Herzfeld, Michael
KW  - Jaraíz de la Vera
KW  - Lewis, Oscar
KW  - Los Olivos
KW  - Virgin Mary
KW  - Zipes, Jack
KW  - agrarian working class symbols
KW  - agrotowns
KW  - beauty: symbolism of
KW  - bridal gift
KW  - cannibals
KW  - carnival
KW  - dance groups
KW  - defloration
KW  - disenchantment
KW  - eagle
KW  - enchantment
KW  - erotic aggression
KW  - family structure
KW  - feminism
KW  - filial piety
KW  - folklore
KW  - forest
KW  - gender segregation
KW  - helpful characters
KW  - idealization of women
KW  - incest
KW  - male competition
KW  - mass media
KW  - matrilocality
KW  - menstrual magic
KW  - thieves
KW  - ugliness
KW  - witchcraft
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Stories, Their Tellers, and Their Communities --; Preface --; 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 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Spanish villagers tell many folktales that describe in metaphorical language the struggles of young men and women as they emerge from their parental families and join in love. In this book James Taggart presents dozens of orally transmitted tales, including "Snow White," "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," "Blancaflor," and dragonslayer stories, collected from seven villages in the region of CNBceres, and analyzes the differences in male and female approaches to telling them. 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. This indirect narrative dialogue conveys an understanding of the opposite sex and establishes a common model of marriage that permits men and women to overcome their fear of each other and bond in heterosexual love
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691226927?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691226927
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691226927/original
ER  -