Women S Folklore Women S Culture

Author : Rosan A. Jordan,Susan J. Kalcik
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Pauline Greenhill,Diane Tye
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780773516144

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Undisciplined Women by Pauline Greenhill,Diane Tye Pdf

Redressing a neglect of women's traditions and feminist perspectives in Canadian folklore studies, 20 contributions discuss female experiences of traditional culture from feminist viewpoints. The authors look at the effect of gender on the collecting and interpreting of women's folklore, negative and positive images of women in traditional and popular culture, and women's use of creativity in their everyday lives. Some contributors are nonacademics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Pauline Greenhill,Liz Locke,Theresa A. Vaughan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Joan Newlon Radner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : LaMonda Horton-Stallings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE
ISBN : UCSC:32106018793825

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Mutha' is Half a Word by LaMonda Horton-Stallings Pdf

Emblematic of change and transgression, the trickster has inappropriately become the methodological tool for conservative cultural studies analysis, Mutha' is Half a Word strives to break that convention.

Author : Susan T. Hollis,Linda Pershing,M. Jane Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Liz Locke,Theresa A. Vaughan,Pauline Greenhill
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Women
ISBN : UCSC:32106019855813

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Encyclopedia of Women's Folklore and Folklife: M-Z by Liz Locke,Theresa A. Vaughan,Pauline Greenhill Pdf

Topics covered include: Abortion; Banshee; Barbie Doll; Best Friend; Cinderella; Courtship; Cowgirl; Cyber culture; Erotic Folklore; Folk Photography; Glass Ceiling; Hair; Hip Hop Culture/Rap; Lesbian and Queer Studies; Marriage; Menstruation; Muslim Women's Folklore; Photocopy Lore; Quilt making; and many more. 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. FEATURES AND BENEFITS: 4 substantial overview essays survey the present state of scholarship on women's folklore and folklife around the world.

Author : Jane Caputi
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0299196240

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Goddesses and Monsters by Jane Caputi Pdf

The essays focus upon popular culture as it is informed by ancient and current mythic images, narratives, personalities, icons and archetypes. Topics include: the cult status of the serial sex killer; sexual murder as a contemporary form of religious sacrifice; pornography as an everyday narrative underlying not only sexism, but also racism, homophobia, and militarism; the relation of incest to nuclearism; pornography and the sacred; cyborg myth; and subtextual presence of ancient goddess figures in contemporary narratives, including that of Princess Diana.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000008864162

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Women and Folklore by Anonim Pdf

Women and Folklore concerns itself with the growing body of English-language literature on women's folklore and culture. . . . There are 1,664 bibliographic citations, with a combined subject and name index containing some intriguing topics and names. A significant interdisciplinary bibliographic addition for high school, college, university and public libraries. Choice

Author : Mary J. Magoulick
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496837073

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The Goddess Myth in Contemporary Literature and Popular Culture by Mary J. Magoulick Pdf

Honorable Mention for the 2022 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Goddess characters are revered as feminist heroes in the popular media of many cultures. However, these goddess characters often prove to be less promising and more regressive than most people initially perceive. Goddesses in film, television, and fiction project worldviews and messages that reflect mostly patriarchal culture (included essentialized gender assumptions), in contrast to the feminist, empowering levels many fans and critics observe. Building on critiques of other skeptical scholars, this feminist, folkloristic approach deepens how our remythologizing of the ancient past reflects a contemporary worldview and rhetoric. Structures of contemporary goddess myths often fit typical extremes as either vilified, destructive, dark, and chaotic (typical in film or television); or romanticized, positive, even utopian (typical in women’s speculative fiction). This goddess spectrum persistently essentializes gender, stereotyping women as emotional, intuitive, sexual, motherly beings (good or bad), precluded from complex potential and fuller natures. Within apparent good-over-evil, pop-culture narrative frames, these goddesses all suffer significantly. However, a few recent intersectional writers, like N. K. Jemisin, break through these dark reflections of contemporary power dynamics to offer complex characters who evince “hopepunk.” They resist typical simplified, reductionist absolutes to offer messages that resonate with potential for today’s world. Mythic narratives featuring goddesses often do, but need not, serve merely as ideological mirrors of our culture’s still problematically reductionist approach to women and all humanity.

Author : Emilie Kutash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567697400

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Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory by Emilie Kutash Pdf

How have the goddesses of ancient myth survived, prevalent even now as literary and cultural icons? How do allegory, symbolic interpretation, and political context transform the goddess from her regional and individual identity into a goddess of philosophy and literature? Emilie Kutash explores these questions, beginning from the premise that cultural memory, a collective cultural and social phenomenon, can last thousands of years. Kutash demonstrates a continuing practice of interpreting and allegorizing ancient myths, tracing these goddesses of archaic origin through history. Chapters follow the goddesses from their ancient near eastern prototypes, to their place in the epic poetry, drama and hymns of classical Greece, to their appearance in Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy, Medieval allegory, and their association with Christendom. Finally, Kutash considers how goddesses were made into Jungian archetypes, and how some contemporary feminists made them a counterfoil to male divinity, thereby addressing the continued role of goddesses in perpetuating gender binaries.

Author : Cathy L. Preston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317942955

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Folklore, Literature, and Cultural Theory by Cathy L. Preston Pdf

First published in 1996. The need to write, particularly in pre-technological recording days, in order to preserve and to analyze, lies at the heart of folklore and yet to write means to change the medium in which much folk communication and art actually took and takes place. In Part I of the collection, the contributors address literary constructions of traditional and emergent cultures, those of Leslie Marmon Silko, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora, Carmen Tafolla, Julio Cortázar, Milan Kundera, Franz Kafka, Philip Roth, Thomas Hardy, and Dacia Maraini. The contributors to Part II of the collection offer readings of a variety of traditional, vernacular, and local performances.

Author : Penny Griffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317580379

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Popular Culture, Political Economy and the Death of Feminism by Penny Griffin Pdf

While some have argued that we live in a ‘postfeminist’ era that renders feminism irrelevant to people’s contemporary lives this book takes ‘feminism’, the source of eternal debate, contestation and ambivalence, and situates the term within the popular, cultural practices of everyday life. It explores the intimate connections between the politics of feminism and the representational practices of contemporary popular culture, examining how feminism is ‘made sensible’ through visual imagery and popular culture representations. It investigates how popular culture is produced, represented and consumed to reproduce the conditions in which feminism is valued or dismissed, and asks whether antifeminism exists in commodity form and is commercially viable. Written in an accessible style and analysing a broad range of popular culture artefacts (including commercial advertising, printed and digital news-related journalism and commentary, music, film, television programming, websites and social media), this book will be of use to students, researchers and practitioners of International Relations, International Political Economy and gender, cultural and media studies.

Author : Jenny Williamson,Genn McMenemy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781507219416

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Women of Myth by Jenny Williamson,Genn McMenemy Pdf

"Get inspired with 50 fascinating stories of powerful female figures from mythologies around the world. From heroines and deities to leaders and mythical creatures, this collection explores figures of myth who can inspire modern readers with their ability to shape our culture with the stories of their power, wisdom, compassion, and cunning. Featured characters include: Atalanta (Greek heroine and huntress who killed the Caledonia Boar and joined the Argonauts); Sky-Woman (the first woman in Iroquois myth who fell through a hole in the sky and into our world); Clídna (Queen of the Banshees in Irish legend); and La Llorona (a ghostly woman in Mexican folklore who wanders the waterfront). Celebrate these game-changing, attention-worthy female characters with this collection of engaging tales"--

Author : Naomi Wolf
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780061969942

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The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf Pdf

The bestselling classic that redefined our view of the relationship between beauty and female identity. In today's world, women have more power, legal recognition, and professional success than ever before. Alongside the evident progress of the women's movement, however, writer and journalist Naomi Wolf is troubled by a different kind of social control, which, she argues, may prove just as restrictive as the traditional image of homemaker and wife. It's the beauty myth, an obsession with physical perfection that traps the modern woman in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred as she tries to fulfill society's impossible definition of "the flawless beauty."