Women In Folk Literature

Author : Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Literatureslight Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Women in Folk Literature by Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay Pdf

Never accept culture on its face value! It is because culture carries with it both retrogressive and progressive values. Progressive values of culture can cause development of society; but retrogressive elements of culture can play role against development and that is what has happened in case of folk literature. Various forms of folk literature have depicted many an instances of gender inequality, gender discrimination and have undermined the status of women in society. The book ‘Women in Folk Literature: Exposition of their Status through Gender Lenses’ is the result of my prolonged research and thinking and a record of the presence of gender inequality in folk literature in general and folk songs, fairy tales and folk tales, proverbs and riddles in particular. I have noticed that most of the discussion on folk literature is presented from uncritical entertainment viewpoint. Most of the folklorists have very carefully avoided the discussion of retrogressive features of the various forms of folk literature. Society is the maker of culture and on the other hand culture also reconstructs society. In terms of such mutual interaction between society and culture, the identification of the retrogressive features of folk literature and the sociological observation and reassessment of their origin, evolution and social influence is urgently needed and should be an important cultural agenda of the day. Everybody, especially women love to hear, read and perform various rites like vow-rhymes, folk songs and thereby want to get innocent pleasure; but the hidden messages of gender inequality extended in different shades and layers of these various forms of folk literature affect their innocent mind and direct them towards gender socialization by indoctrinating them in the ideology of masculinity and femininity. So, it is high time to unmask the actual objectives of folk literature and to assess them from a critical approach through gender lenses especially.

Author : Suzanne I. Barchers,Leann Mullineaux
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997-03-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313070013

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Wise Women by Suzanne I. Barchers,Leann Mullineaux Pdf

Strong women who prevail and triumph using their intelligence, courage, or resourcefulness are celebrated in this gathering of stories for all ages. It features legends, folklore, and fairy tales from such far-flung places as the Punjab, Africa, China, Japan, the Middle East, and Europe and from places close at hand-Hawaii, New England, and the Ozarks. Some of the tales are reprinted from their original telling, others are completely retold. All are excellent for read-alouds, story time, or reading programs. Also of interest to students of literature, storytelling, or women's studies.

Author : Beata Walęciuk-Dejneka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8365765217

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Folk Image of Woman by Beata Walęciuk-Dejneka Pdf

Author : Joan Newlon Radner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0252062671

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Feminist Messages by Joan Newlon Radner Pdf

Burning dinners, stitching "scandalous" quilts, talking "hard" in the male dominated world of rap music---Feminist Messages interprets such acts as instances of coding, or covert expressions of subversive or disturbing ideas. While coding may be either deliberated or unconscious, it is a common phenomenon in women's stories, art, and daily routines. Because it is essentially ambiguous, coding protects women from potentially dangerous responses from those who might be troubled by their messages.

Author : Pauline Greenhill,Liz Locke,Theresa A. Vaughan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313088131

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Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife [2 volumes] by Pauline Greenhill,Liz Locke,Theresa A. Vaughan Pdf

From the stone age to the cyber age, women and men have experienced the world differently. Out of a cosmos of goddesses and she-devils, earth mothers and madonnas, witches and queens, saints and whores, a vast body of women's folklore has come into bloom. International in scope and drawing on more than 130 expert contributors, this encyclopedia reviews the myths, traditions, and beliefs central to women's daily lives. More than 260 alphabetically arranged entries cover the lore of women across time, space, and life. Students of history, religion and spirituality, healing and traditional medicine, literature, and world cultures will value this encyclopedia as an indispensable guide to women's folklore. In addition, there are entries on women's folklore and folklife in 15 regions of the world, such as the Caribbean, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Western Europe. Entries provide cross-references and cite works for further reading, and the encyclopedia closes with a selected bibliography of print and electronic resources. Students learning about history, world cultures, religion and spirituality, healing and traditional medicine, and literature will welcome this companion to the daily life of women across time and continents.

Author : Karen Gernant
Publisher : Interlink Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040046032

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Imagining Women by Karen Gernant Pdf

Contains 37 stories which provide a rare look at the everyday lives of common people, especially women, in the villages of China.

Author : Donald Haase
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814330304

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Fairy Tales and Feminism by Donald Haase Pdf

Responding to thirty years of feminist fairy-tale scholarship, this book breaks new ground by rethinking important questions, advocating innovative approaches, and introducing woman-centered texts and traditions that have been ignored for too long.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1841488070

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Fiesta Femenina by Anonim Pdf

The Aesop Prize 2001, American Folklore Society Editor's Choice 2001, "Booklist

Author : Anne Cameron
Publisher : HARBOUR Publishing Company Limited
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112321877

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Daughters of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron Pdf

Collected stories of the Nootka tribe of Vancouver Island which portray the traditional way of life as remembered by the women of the tribe.

Author : Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469663616

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The Souls of Womenfolk by Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh Pdf

Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh traces a bold history of the interior lives of bondwomen as they carved out an existence for themselves and their families amid the horrors of American slavery. With particular attention to maternity, sex, and other gendered aspects of women's lives, she documents how bondwomen crafted female-centered cultures that shaped the religious consciousness and practices of entire enslaved communities. Indeed, gender as well as race co-constituted the Black religious subject, she argues—requiring a shift away from understandings of "slave religion" as a gender-amorphous category. Women responded on many levels—ethically, ritually, and communally—to southern slavery. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Wells-Oghoghomeh shows how they remembered, reconfigured, and innovated beliefs and practices circulating between Africa and the Americas. In this way, she redresses the exclusion of enslaved women from the American religious narrative. Challenging conventional institutional histories, this book opens a rare window onto the spiritual strivings of one of the most remarkable and elusive groups in the American experience.

Author : Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Publisher : Indoeuropeanpublishing.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1644399946

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Folk-Lore of Women by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer Pdf

Folklore of misogny would probably be a better title for this book. Replete with Victorian stereotypes of women, this book draws on many different traditions from around the world to portray women as simultaneously the 'weaker sex' and the source of all evil. Missing or scarce here are women's voices or traditions. However, this work is an essential starting point if you want to enumerate traditional male attitudes about women.

Author : Susan T. Hollis,Linda Pershing,M. Jane Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000035605702

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Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore by Susan T. Hollis,Linda Pershing,M. Jane Young Pdf

Author : Rosan A. Jordan,Susan J. Kalcik
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812293388

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Women's Folklore, Women's Culture by Rosan A. Jordan,Susan J. Kalcik Pdf

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

Author : Carme Oriol,Emili Samper
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027261854

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A History of Catalan Folk Literature by Carme Oriol,Emili Samper Pdf

A History of Catalan Folk Literature is the fruit of a collaborative effort between fifteen researchers from various universities and research centres who have joined forces to create a broader study of Catalan folk literature that addresses the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories in their entirety. Since the thirteenth century, Catalan culture has created a rich and abundant literary legacy, and since the mid-nineteenth century this has been complemented by a tradition of folklore studies that remains very much alive today. Within this comparatively recent discipline, folk literature has played a particularly important role. The book presents the evolution of Catalan folk literature studies in each of the areas that make up the Catalan linguistic and cultural territories referred to above. The period considered stretches from the mid-nineteenth century, when the beginnings of a scientific interest in folklore emerged across Europe, to the present day.

Author : Ethel Johnston Phelps
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781558619470

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Kamala by Ethel Johnston Phelps Pdf

In this second volume of folktales, a Punjabi woman outwits seven ruthless thieves, an Incan girl restores harmony to the empire, and a mischievous Norwegian lass thwarts her entitled landowner. Spanning centuries and continents, Kamala recalls how the dazzling courage, cleverness, and power of women have always held our world together.