Library - View details   To know more about this section

Folk image of woman : the perspective of otherness. Folklore and literature

Book: English. Online
Author(s)
Walęciuk-Dejneka, Beata
Title
Folk image of woman : the perspective of otherness. Folklore and literature / Beata Walęciuk-Dejneka
Publication
Kraków ; Warszawa: Aureus : Naukowe, 2018
Subjects
Polonia
Content
Testu osoa
Physical description
226 or.
Type of material
Book
ISBN / ISSN
978-83-65765-21-5 (Aureus) ; 978-83-7051-915-5 (Naukowe)
Notes
Bibliografia: 207-226 or.
Introduction ...9
PART I
The non-stereotypical, the different and the excluded: this world, the earth
Chapter 1
Women of wisdom – midwives, healers, prophetesses ...19
Chapter 2
Women “with no voices” – mourners, spinners/weavers, dancers ...43
Chapter 3
Secular impurity and “daughter of the Earth” – Jagna Boryna, neé Pacześ ...71
PART II
The mysterious, the dangerous, the other: the other world, the water
Chapter 4
Female demons of seduction: rusalki ...91
Chapter 5
Romans with a sea maiden: mermaids ...123
Chapter 6
Persecuted infidelity: dziwożony ...146
Conclusion ...165
Notes ...167
Bibliography of Primary Sources ...207
Bibliography of references (a selection) ...211