Old Wives Tales And Other Women S Stories

Author : Tania Modleski
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814755945

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Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories by Tania Modleski Pdf

Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.

Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664121271

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The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett Pdf

The Old Wives Tale deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, through the period of separation and quite different lives, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Paris and Burslem, a town in the Potteries district of North Staffordshire.

Author : Iris Andreski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000939019

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Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect by Iris Andreski Pdf

This volume is a collection of tales of life histories of 26 elderly women from Ibiboland. It obtains a first-hand record of the pattern of life and banishes the myth of primitivity of the African by illustrating the complexity of conversational language of peasants and market women.

Author : Tania Modleski
Publisher : I.B.Tauris
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1860643868

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Old Wives' Tales by Tania Modleski Pdf

What stories are women telling about themselves? What are the narratives that shape women's fantasy lives and experiences? How can women use the existing media of film, performance and autobiography to tell their own stories, their own lives, their own fantasies? Offering answers to these questions, this book considers how, and under what conditions, women might become the makers and not simply the bearers of meaning; how, in other words, women can tell instead of being told.

Author : Iris Andreski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Ibibio (African people)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Old Wives' Tales; Life-stories from Ibibioland by Iris Andreski Pdf

A delightful little book about the daily life and thought of Ibibio women of southeastern Nigeria. Andreski has gathered stories and biographies from more than two dozen elderly women, has tried to put them in ethnological perspective and shows the differential impact of rapid social changes.

Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Sisters
ISBN : OCLC:685240893

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The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett Pdf

Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : UCSC:32106013576647

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The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book by Angela Carter Pdf

Fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world." -- From the Introduction There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology. Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers.

Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : 9065503439

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The Absent Mother, Or Women Against Women in the "old Wives Tales" by Marina Warner Pdf

Author : Jay Twomey
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781119004684

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The Pastoral Epistles Through the Centuries by Jay Twomey Pdf

Drawing on scholarly insights and a comprehensive array of texts from the entirety of Christian tradition, The Pastoral Epistles Through the Centuries explores the rich legacy of the Pastorals as it has unfolded over the centuries. Explores the important role of the New Testament letters to Timothy and Titus, known collectively as the Pastoral Epistles, in the development of early Christianity Surveys the many theological, cultural, literary, political, and artistic uses of the Pastorals, and the broader influence these letters have had throughout the ages Considers the Pastorals’ complex influence on issues such as church structure and rites, the roles of women in Christian religious life, the authority of scripture, and the development of monastic orders Examines the many ways in which language and concepts from the Pastoral Epistles (such as “fight the good fight” and “the root of all evils”) have filtered into our cultural vernacular References the works of major theologians and interpreters from all periods, and places special emphasis on traditionally underrepresented interpreters

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780752486796

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Old Wives' Tales by Mary Chamberlain Pdf

From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?

Author : Gehla S. Knight
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1647183782

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OLD WIVES' TALES by Gehla S. Knight Pdf

"Old Wives' Tales" uncovers the erotic secrets of women long past the age when their charms elicited lustful glances from potential lovers and passersby. Thesis interviewer Charlotte Pulver plumbs their reminiscences of deflowerings, torrid affairs, romances, dangerous liaisons, betrayals and sins of the heart as well as the flesh.

Author : Jerold J. Abrams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781666920185

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Contemporary Cowboys by Jerold J. Abrams Pdf

This volume offers new critical insights into the increasingly mythological figure of the American cowboy and “The West” in the 21st century while seeking to explain how these components of American identity continue to fit into our shared culture narrative.

Author : Iris Andreski
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1971-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0805233423

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Old Wives' Tales by Iris Andreski Pdf

Author : Tess Cosslett
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Childbirth
ISBN : 0719043247

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Women Writing Childbirth by Tess Cosslett Pdf

In this work, the author's detailed readings of birth stories - both literary and medical - reveal deeply embedded assumptions about how women are viewed and view ourselves. The current debates about natural childbirth as advocated by Sheila Kitzinger, Grantly Read Dick and others, are examined alongside key literary works by writers such as Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Fay Weldon and Toni Morrison.

Author : George Peele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1021794120

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The Old Wives' Tale; a Play by George Peele Pdf