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Routledge Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret: What Women Didn’t Tell the Grimms

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Everyone knows Rumpelstiltskin’s story―or thinks they do. But this innocent-seeming tale hides generations of women’s shrewd accounts of their relationships with men. And the verdict is not flattering. The fairytale may count among the world’s oldest dirty jokes. The theme of the tale, an observation repeated and varied throughout, mocks male inadequacy in many forms, beginning with sexual failure. The punchline misplaced, over time its wickedly funny insights about adult life passed for childish nonsense. The story hides, in plain sight, criticism of workplace sexual harassment―centuries before society took notice of the indignity. Rumpelstiltskin tells a feminist tale with lessons for men and women, about what women said to each other when they thought their private conversation and complaints passed unnoticed. In the story’s different versions, the Brothers Grimm, who recorded the tale, missed women’s wry observations. Review "Who has not puzzled over Rumpelstiltskin at one time or another, a fairy-tale figure utterly lacking the charm of his folkloric cousins? Using the sleuthing skills of historians, the interpretive finesse of folklorists, and the artful insight of psychologists, Harry Rand helps us understand the origins of this figure and make sense of the stories in which he flourished." -- Maria Tatar "With stimulating psychological, linguistic, and historical analysis of one of our oldest tales, Harry Rand has created a lively book that persuades us a name is more than a name when it comes to women’s humor in the spinning room." -- Dr. Katharyn Howd Machan, Ithaca College "Astonishing depth" -- Harvard Magazine According to Rand, "Rumpelstiltskin could be seen as a kind of antihero...very relevant to the lives of 21st-century women." -- Washington Post About the Author Harry Rand is a senior curator of cultural history at the Smithsonian Institution.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0815384564
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Children's Literature Studies
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 16 December 2019
Listed Since: 13 December 2017

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