Description |
1 online resource (xv, 306 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
Includes some text in French. |
Subject |
Women -- Canada -- Folklore.
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Women. |
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Canada. |
Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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Subject |
Folklore -- Canada.
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Folklore. |
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Women -- Canada -- Social life and customs.
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Manners and customs. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
Added Author |
Greenhill, Pauline.
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Tye, Diane, 1957-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Undisciplined women. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997 (DLC) 97900460 |
ISBN |
9780773566620 (electronic book) |
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0773566627 (electronic book) |
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0773516158 |
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9780773516151 |
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077351614X |
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9780773516144 |
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