Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture
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Women have been tricking men for thousands of years, and female tricksters have been appearing in classic and popular texts at least since the Thousand and One Nights . While there are many studies of tricksters, few have focused on the chicanery of women, and none have dealt with the ways in which the female trickster is constructed in America. Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women is the first book to explore the cultural work performed by female tricksters...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0812234359
ISBN13:9780812234350
Release Date:March 1998
Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press
Length:272 Pages
Dimensions:6.0" x 9.0"
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