Scheherazade's Sisters

Scheherazade's Sisters: Trickster Heroines and Their Stories in World Literature is a work of criticism by Marilyn Jurich.

Contents

• Acknowledgements 1x
• Introduction xiii

1. Mean and Meaningful Tricks: Gender as Engendering and the Trickstar as Transformer (pp.1-27)
2. Folktale Females in Patriarchal Systems: Trickster and Gender in Mythology, History, Anthropology and Psychology, and the Emergence of the Trickstar (pp.28-64)
3. The Rescuer (pp.66-116)
4. The Pursuer (pp.117-158)
5. The Empowered (pp.159-194)
6. The Province of Tricksterdom: A Comparison of Male and Female Tricksters, Feminist Discourses on Sexual Stereotyping in Folktales, and the Trickstar and Her Design for Transforming Gender and Society (pp. 195-247)

• Overview of Tales: Chapters 1-5 (pp.248-275)
• Bibliography (pp. 276-288)
• Index (pp. 289-292)

Editions

• 1998: Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-29724-X (Contributions in Women's Studies, No. 167)