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      What Women Didn’t Tell the Grimms

      Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret

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      Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret book

      What Women Didn’t Tell the Grimms
      ByHarry Rand
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 20 December 2019
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351204156
      Pages 286
      eBook ISBN 9781351204156
      Subjects Language & Literature
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      Rand, H. (2019). Rumpelstiltskin’s Secret: What Women Didn’t Tell the Grimms (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351204156

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |4 pages

      Introduction

      chapter |4 pages

      The Tale of Rumpelstiltskin

      chapter 1|25 pages

      The Story’s History

      chapter 2|36 pages

      Meaning Is Purpose

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Rumpelstiltskin’s Author

      chapter 4|22 pages

      The Spinner’s Libido

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Fairytale Contracts and Commerce

      chapter 6|12 pages

      Supernatural Zoology

      chapter 7|12 pages

      The Talking Cure

      chapter 8|25 pages

      The Devil versus Motherhood

      chapter 9|13 pages

      The Unknown Name

      chapter 10|20 pages

      A Bad Reputation, Unearned

      chapter 11|14 pages

      A Lamentable Example of Self-Abuse

      chapter 12|14 pages

      Rumpelstiltskin’s Competition

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