Changing the Sex of Cats: Considerations on Tale Type ATU 545, “The Cat as Helper, or, Puss in Boots” between Italy and France

By Cristina Mazzoni

When Charles Perrault adapted his French “Puss in Boots” from earlier Italian versions by Giovan Francesco Straparola and Giambattista Basile, he made his feline protagonist a male. The cat, however, was grammatically gendered as feminine in the…

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