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| Genre/Form: | Folklore |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
R A Jordan; Susan J Kalčik |
| ISBN: | 0812212061 9780812212068 |
| OCLC Number: | 10876936 |
| Description: | xiv, 245 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Part one. Women in private / women with women -- Dial a story, dial an audience : two rural women narrators in an urban setting / Linda Dégh -- The vaginal serpent and other themes from Mexican-American women's lore / Rosan A. Jordan -- Woman to woman : fieldwork and the private sphere / Margaret R. Yocom -- The sinship quilt : an ethnographic semiotic analysis of a quilting bee / Susan Roach -- It's a sin to waste a rag : rug-weaving in western Maryland / Geraldine Niva Johnson -- Part two. Women in public -- Women's handles and the performance of identity in the CB community / Susan J. Kalčik -- Belle Gunness, the Lady Bluebeard : narrative use of a deviant woman / Janet L. Langlois -- The misuse of enchantment : controversies on the signifiance of fairy tales / Kay F. Stone -- Part three. Two worlds / one world -- "Woof!" A word on women's roles in family storytelling / Karen Baldwin -- Some differences in male and female joke-telling / Carol Mitchell -- Sex role reversals, sex changes, and transvestite disguise in the oral tradition of a conservative Muslim / Margaret Mills -- Woman remembering : life history as exemplary pattern / Elaine Jahner. |
| Series Title: | Publications of the American Folklore Society., New series ;, v. 8. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Rosan A. Jordan, Susan J. Kalčik. |
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