Women's Folklore, Women's Culture

by Rosan A. Jordan

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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 show more 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 show less

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Women's Folklore, Women's Culture

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Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Anthropology, Literature Studies and Criticism, General Nonfiction, History
DDC/MDS
398.088042Social sciencesCustoms, etiquette & folkloreFolklore
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GR470 .W66Geography, Anthropology and RecreationFolkloreFolkloreBy subjectFolklore relating to private life
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