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Affair
Ambivalence
Anecdote
Anthropologist
Assertiveness
Aunt
Author_James M. Taggart
Black Boy
Cannibalism
Castration
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Chastity
Child care
Clothing
Coffin
Conjugal love
Courtship
Cross-cultural
Early childhood
Engagement
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Extended family
Extremadura
Fairy tale
Femininity
Filial piety
Garganta
Gender role
Grandparent
His Family
Hispanic
Household
Incest
Interdependence
Manliness (book)
Marriage
Masculinity
Meal
Mestizo
Modesty
My Child
Narcissism
Narration
Narrative
Nuclear family
Oedipus complex
Oral tradition
Potion
Power of Women
Protagonist
Residence
Ruth Behar
Say Yes (short story)
Seduction
Sexual division of labour
Sexual predator
Sibling
Social status
Spaniards
Spouse
Stepfamily
Stepmother
Storytelling
The Other Hand
The Other Shoe
The Telling
The Wedding Banquet
Two Women
Virginity
Wax and Wane
Wealth
Widow
Women and Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780691028521
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 04 Feb 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
