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Women's Folklore, Women's Culture
By Rosan A. Jordan, Susan J. Kalčik
280 pages
- Contributors:
- Includes content by:
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Rosan A. Jordan
Margaret R. Yocom
Susan Roach
Geraldine Niva Johnson
Susan J. Kalčik
Janet L. Langlois
Kay F. Stone
Karen Baldwin
Carol Mitchell
Margaret Mills
Rosan A. JordanShow more
Margaret R. Yocom
Susan Roach
Geraldine Niva Johnson
Susan J. Kalčik
Janet L. Langlois
Kay F. Stone
Karen Baldwin
Carol Mitchell
Margaret Mills
Elaine Jahner
- Publisher:
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Subjects:
Synopsis
The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book provides insights balancing traditional folklore scholarship. All of the authors also explore the relationship between make and female views and worlds.
The book begins with the private world of women, performances within the intimacy ...
The essays in Women's Folklore, Women's Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on women's genre of folklore. Long ignored, women's folklore is often collaborative and frequently is enacted in the privacy of the domestic sphere. This book provides insights balancing traditional folklore scholarship. All of the authors also explore the relationship between make and female views and worlds.
The book begins with the private world of women, performances within the intimacy of family and fields; it then studies women's folklore in the public arena; finally, the book looks at the interrelationships between public and private arenas and between male and female activities.
By turning our attention to previously ignored women's realms, these essays provide a new perspective from which to view human culture as a whole and make Women's Folklore, Women's Culture a significant addition to folklore scholarship
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Introduction ix
- Part One - Women in Private/ Women with Women 1
- 1 - Dial a Story, Dial an Audience: Two Rural Women Narrators In an Urban Setiing 3
- 2 - The Vaginal Serpent And Other Themes From Mexican-American Women's Lore 26
- Notes 43
- 3 - Woman to Woman: Fieldwork And the Private Sphere 45
- 4 - The Kinship Quilt: an Ethnographic Semiotic Analysis of a Quilting Bee 54
- Notes 64
- 5 - It's a Sin to Waste a Rag: Rug-Weaving in Western Maryland 65
- Notes 95
- Part Two - Women in Public 97
- 6 - Women's Handles and The Performance of Identity In the Cb Community 99
- 7 - Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard: Narrative Use of a Deviant Woman 109
- Notes 124
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Introduction ix
- Part One - Women in Private/ Women with Women 1
- 1 - Dial a Story, Dial an Audience: Two Rural Women Narrators In an Urban Setiing 3
- 2 - The Vaginal Serpent And Other Themes From Mexican-American Women's Lore 26
- Notes 43
- 3 - Woman to Woman: Fieldwork And the Private Sphere 45
- 4 - The Kinship Quilt: an Ethnographic Semiotic Analysis of a Quilting Bee 54
- Notes 64
- 5 - It's a Sin to Waste a Rag: Rug-Weaving in Western Maryland 65
- Notes 95
- Part Two - Women in Public 97
- 6 - Women's Handles and The Performance of Identity In the Cb Community 99
- 7 - Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard: Narrative Use of a Deviant Woman 109
- Notes 124
- 8 - The Misuses of Enchantment: Controversies on The Significance of Fairy Tales 125
- Notes 144
- Part Three - Two Worlds / One World 147
- 9 - "Woof!" a Word on Women's Roles In Family Storytelling 149
- Notes 161
- 10 - Some Differences in Male And Female Joke-Telling 163
- Notes 185
- 11 - Sex Role Reversals, Sex Changes, And Transvestite Disguise in The Oral Tradition of a Conservative Muslim Community in Afghanistan 187
- Notes 212
- 12 - Woman Remembering: Life History as Exemplary Pattern 214
- References 234
- Contributors 244