| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection
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| Contents |
Reclaiming the study of our cultural lives / Laurel Doucette -- Grande œuvre inachevée de sœur Catherine Jolicœur / RonaldLabelle -- Personal odyssey and personal prejudices / Edith Fowke -- Lessons from "undisciplined" ethnography : the case of Jean D. Heffernan / Diane Tye -- Feminist afterwords : revisitiing Copper Woman / Christine St. Peter -- Ridding the witch : violence against women in Newfoundland witch tradition / Barbara Rieti -- Mother to her distant children : the Icelandic Fjallkona in Canada / Anne Brydon -- Changing places : dance, society, and gender in Cheticamp / Barbara Le Blanc -- "Handsome Cabin Boy" : cross-dressing ballads, sexualities, and gendered meanings / Pauline Greenhill -- Men in women's clothes : theatrical transvestites on the Canadian prairie / Michael Taft -- Kiss and kill : some impacts of cultural representations of women's sexualities / Janice L. Ristock -- Help! Me, s/he, and the boss / Vivian Labrie -- Frances Mateychuk's quilt's : mapping a place / Susan Shantz -- Continuité ou rupture : des signes vestimentaires sur la situation des femmes (Québec, vingtième siècle) / Jocelyne Mathieu -- Miracle lore and metamorphoses / Gail Paton Grant -- "Just like one of the boys" : tactics of women taxi drivers / Cynthia Boyd -- Circumventing the taboos : Inuit women's autobiographies / Robin McGrath -- Making time for talk : women's informal gatherings in Cape St George, Newfoundland / Marie-Annick Desplanques -- Speaking out in God's name : a Mennonite woman preaching / Pamela E. Klassen -- Difficult women in folktales : two women, two stories / Kay Stone, with Marvyne Jenoff and Susan Gordon |
| Summary |
"Contributors demonstrate that informal traditional and popular expressive cultural forms continue to be central to Canadians' gender constructions and clearly display the creation and re-creation of women's often subordinate position in society. They not only explore positive and negative images of women - the witch, the Icelandic Mountain Woman, and the Hollywood "killer dyke"--But also examine how actual women - taxi drivers, quilters, spiritual healers, and storytellers - negotiate and remake these images in their lives and work. Contributors also propose models for facilitating feminist dialogue on traditional and popular culture in Canada."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Includes some text in French |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Women -- Canada -- Folklore
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Folklore -- Canada.
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Women -- Canada -- Social life and customs
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
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Folklore
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Women
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Women -- Social life and customs
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Vrouwen.
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Volkscultuur.
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Populaire cultuur.
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Femmes -- Canada -- Folklore.
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Folklore -- Canada.
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Femmes -- Canada -- Moeurs et coutumes.
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Greenhill, Pauline, 1955-
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Tye, Diane, 1957-
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| LC no. |
97900460 |
| ISBN |
9780773566620 |
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0773566627 |
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1282854526 |
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9781282854529 |
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9786612854521 |
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6612854529 |
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