Japanese Animal-Wife Tales: Narrating Gender Reality in Japanese Folktale Tradition (International Folkloristics #9)
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Publication Date: December 17th, 2014
Publisher:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
ISBN:
9781433126918
Pages:
198
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Description
By re-examining the gender-specific behaviors of both the animal-woman and her human spouse, this book recovers the sociocultural and historical contexts that underlay their behaviors to demonstrate the actual gender characteristics that shaped the original Japanese Animal-Wife tales, highlighting the assertive, rather than na ve, personality of women in early Japanese folktale tradition.