Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore

Name: Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore
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ISBN: 9780252063138

ISBN-10: 0252063139

ISBN-13: 9780252063138

Edition: 1994

Authors: Susan Hollis, Linda Pershing, M. Jane Young

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Taking a performance-centered perspective on folklore, contributors to this volume challenge patriarchal assumptions of the past and rethink old topics from a feminist perspective while opening new areas of research. In eighteen chapters the book covers girls' games, political cartoons, quilting, Pentecostal preachers, daily housework, Egyptian goddesses, tall tales, and birth. This hallmark collection of feminist folklore will be a valuable resource for scholars and other interested readers.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 12/1/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Susan Hollis has been a writer and singer of songs for many years. The Adventures of Mars Charlie is her first such endeavor.



Preface


Prologue: "It's Okay Once You Get It Past the Teeth" and Other Feminist Paradigms for Folklore Studies




Challenging the Canon: Folklore Theory Reconsidered from Feminist Perspectives




The Creator Gods: Romantic Nationalism and the En-genderment of Women in Folklore




Absent Gender, Silent Encounter




A Feminist Folklorist Encounters the Folk: Can Praxis Make Perfect?




Gender and Genre




"Giving an Altar to St. Joseph": A Feminist Perspective on a Patronal Feast




Waking Up the Dead: Old Texts and New Critical Directions




"You Have to Do It with Style": Girls' Games and Girls' Gaming




Accomplishing Social Organization in Girls' Play: Patterns of Competition and Cooperation in an African American Working-Class Girls' Group




Women's Aesthetics and the Quilting Process




Reclaiming the Power of the Margins: Gendered Speech in the Kalevala




Ancient Egyptian Women and the Sky Goddess Nut




Women, Reproduction, and Religion in Western Puebloan Society




Peasant Grandmother, Hunting Helpmate, Silent Wife: Women and Text in Gascon Tall Tales




Access to the Pulpit: Reproductive Images and Maternal Strategies of the Pentecostal Female Pastor




Feminist Lenses and Female Folklore




Why Folklorists Should Study Housework




The Technocratic Model of Birth




Peace Work out of Piecework: Feminist Needlework Metaphors and The Ribbon around the Pentagon




Politics and Gender: Geraldine Ferraro in the Editorial Cartoons




Straight Talk from "Crooked" Women



Contributors