Women's Folklore Women's Culture: 0008 (Publications of the American Folklore Society)

The essays in Womens Folklore Womens Culture focus on women performers of folklore and on womens genre of folklore. Long ignored womens 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 fields; it then studies womens 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 womens realms these essays provide a new perspective from which to view human culture as a whole and make Womens Folklore Womens Culture a significant addition to folklore scholarship