Undisciplined women
Subtitle: tradition and culture in Canada
By: edited by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye.
Contributors: Greenhill, Pauline.; Tye, Diane, 1957-
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Montreal; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Women -- Canada -- Social life and customs; Women -- Canada -- Folklore; Femmes -- Canada -- Folklore; Folklore -- Canada; Femmes -- Canada -- Moeurs et coutumes
Genres: Folklore.
Description: 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [273]-295.
Includes index.
Includes contributions in French.