(P/B) FEMINIST THEORY AND THE STUDY OF FOLKLORE

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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. (from the publisher)

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Preface
Prologue: "It's Okay Once You Get It Past the Teeth" and Other Feminist Paradigms for Folklore Studies
Rayna Green
PART ONE Challenging the Canon: Folklore Theory Reconsidered from Feminist Perspectives
M. Jane Young and Kay Turner
1. The Creator Gods: Romantic Nationalism and the En-genderment of Women in Folklore
Jennifer Fox
2. Absent Gender, Silent Encounter
Debom Kodish
3. A Feminist Folklorist Encounters the Folk: Can Praxis Make Perfect?
Rachelle H. Saltzman
4. Gender and Genre
Amy Shuman
5. "Giving an Altar to St. Joseph": A Feminist Perspective on a Patronal Feast
Kay Turner and Suzanne Seriff
PART TWO Waking Up the Dead: Old Texts and New Critical Directions
Margaret R. Yocom
6. "You Have to Do It with Style": Girls' Games and Girls' Gaming
Linda A. Hughes
7. Accomplishing Social Organization in Girls' Play: Patterns of Competition and Cooperation in an African American Working-Class Girls' Group
Marjorie Harness Goodwin
8. Women's Aesthetics and the Quilting Process
Joyce Ice
9. Reclaiming the Power of the Margins: Gendered Speech in the Kalevala
Patricia E. Sawin
10. Ancient Egyptian Women and the Sky Goddess Nut
Susan Tower Hollis
11. Women, Reproduction, and Religion in Western Puebloan Society
M. Jane Young
12. Peasant Grandmother, Hunting Helpmate, Silent Wife: Women and Text in Gascon Tall Tales
Vera Mark
13. Access to the Pulpit: Reproductive Images and Maternal Strategies of the Pentecostal Female Pastor
Elaine J. Lawless
PART THREE Feminist Lenses and Female Folklore
Carol Mitchell
14. Why Folklorists Should Study Housework Judith Levin
15. The Technocratic Model of Birth
Robbie E. Davis-Floyd
16. Peace Work out of Piecework: Feminist Needlework Metaphors and The Ribbon around the Pentagon
Linda Pershing
17. Politics and Gender: Geraldine Ferraro in the Editorial Cartoons
Elaine K. Miller
18. Straight Talk from "Crooked" Women Marilynn J. Phillips
Contributors