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"Reading this amazing book puts one at the heart of that rare event - a major, discernible shift in human culture and behaviour. The Female Trickster is a really new take on women in Western society." - Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex, UK
"A stunning tour de force, The Female Trickster unites depth psychology, mythology, cultural theory, feminism, and literature in an incisive revelation of the feminine in a postmodern age. The analysis of the fictional female detective as trickster is a startling and valuable contribution to gender research. Tannen is to be congratulated on a book important for students of the humanities and clinicians alike." - Dr. Susan Rowland, University of Greenwich, UK
"In this excellent and provocative book, Ricki Tannen displays creativity and a refreshing lack of inhibition in her criticism of traditional mores and exposure of the flaw in our cultures that do not recognise the female trickster...I have recommended this book to my colleagues and my patients." - Marilyn Newman Metzi, from PsycCRITIQUES Vol 52, December 2007
Table of Contents
Preface. Part I: Introducing the Female Trickster. Introduction. Meetings with Remarkable Women. Location, Location, Location. Part II: Calling Upon the Ancestors. Imagination and Metaphor. Where Have all the Virgins Gone? Law and the Imagination. From the Madwomen in the Attic to Mainstream and Mysterious. Part III: Honoring the Traditions. The Traditional Trickster. Humour. Part IV: Re/Storation. Women are Funny. The Postmodern Female Trickster. Blanche White, Re/Storation Agent. New Sightings, Sex and the City. Conclusion.
