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Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories

Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories
Author: Tania Modleski
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 1998-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814755941

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Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.


Old Wives' Tales

Old Wives' Tales
Author: Iris Andreski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 202
Release: 1970
Genre: Ibibio (African people).
ISBN:

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A delightful little book about the daily life and thought of Ibibio women of southeastern Nigeria. Andreski has gathered stories and biographies from more than two dozen elderly women, has tried to put them in ethnological perspective and shows the differential impact of rapid social changes.


The Old Wives' Tale

The Old Wives' Tale
Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1909
Genre:
ISBN:

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Old Wives' Tales

Old Wives' Tales
Author: Mary Chamberlain
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-05-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0752486799

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From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?


Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect

Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect
Author: Iris Andreski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2023-05-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000939014

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This volume is a collection of tales of life histories of 26 elderly women from Ibiboland. It obtains a first-hand record of the pattern of life and banishes the myth of primitivity of the African by illustrating the complexity of conversational language of peasants and market women.


The Old Wives' Tale

The Old Wives' Tale
Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2007
Genre: Sisters
ISBN:

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Old Wives' Tales

Old Wives' Tales
Author: Susan M. Dodd
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1984
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781587290527

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In these ten varied and keenly rendered tales, Susan Dodd explores the levels of the human heart by leading us through a gallery of feelings, insights, characters, and emotions. Whether writing about a 100-year-old woman in South America, a teenage suicide in Winnetka, a divorced couple meeting by chance, or a pair of lovers listening to the family on the other side of their apartment wall, Dodd places us in a world full of subdued conflict where bonds between loved ones and strangers are tested, broken, and sometimes renewed. Her themes range beyond the regional or contemporary, embracing those moments of loneliness and self-knowledge that confront us all. As the characters meet and separate, wonder and react, we travel with them, exploring the forms of our existence, and the substance of our hearts.


The Little Book of Old Wives' Tales

The Little Book of Old Wives' Tales
Author: Sarah Klain
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9789798201394

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Old Wives' Tales

Old Wives' Tales
Author: Tania Modleski
Publisher: I.B.Tauris
Total Pages: 238
Release: 1999
Genre: American literature
ISBN: 9781860643866

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What stories are women telling about themselves? What are the narratives that shape women's fantasy lives and experiences? How can women use the existing media of film, performance and autobiography to tell their own stories, their own lives, their own fantasies? Offering answers to these questions, this book considers how, and under what conditions, women might become the makers and not simply the bearers of meaning; how, in other words, women can tell instead of being told.