To speak or be silent; the paradox of disobedience in the lives of women
Ross, Lena B (ed)
To speak or be silent; the paradox of disobedience in the lives of women - Wilmette, IL Chiron Publications c1993 - xxiv, 262p.; index
Contents: Eve: reflection on the psychology of the first disobedient woman, p3-12.. Before the fall(s): Native American women and the concept of disobedience, p13-24.. Analyzing resistance: Bedouin women's discourses, p25-36.. (Chaucer: Canterbury Tales) Strategies of defiance: the quest of the wife of Bath, p39-47.. Stepping off the path: disobedience and story-making in ' Little Red-Cap'. A variation of Little Red Riding Hood., p48-61.. Fairy Tale : Snow White : see index.. (Bronte, Charlotte) 'Speak I must': Jane Eyre and the discourse of disobedience, p62-74.. To speak or be spoken: some women in African literature, p75-84.. Apple, Nabila, and Ramza: Arab women's narratives of resistance, p85-96.. Staying in the place of danger: the disobedient, poetic 'I' of Dahlia Ravikovitch, p97-108.. Women who disobey: examples from India, p111-19.. (Shadow) The whirlwind and the spiral: state-sponsored terror and psychic resistance in Marta Traba's Mothers and Shadows, p120-29.. Medea's fiery chariot, p143-59.. Some archetypal foundations of self-spite in the Welsh Mabinogion, p160-76.. Suchieh: the untamed shrew of Hsing-shih Yin-yuan, p177-85 (Chinese). Virginia Woolf: the tragedy of unconscious disobedience, p186-94.. (Arab) Princess of resolution: the emergence of Al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, p197-209.. From Coatlicue to Dona Luz: Mitotes in Chicana literature, p210-25.. Lye throwers and lovely renegades: the road from bitch to hero for black women in fiction and poetry, p226-38.. Forbidden words-enchanting song: the treatment of Delilah in literature and music, p239-49.
'These essays offer a necessary compensation from a perspective that allows the voice of the feminine to be heard, with a sound that resonates as disobedience in the dominant patrifocal culture.'
Paperback (Katerbound)
0-933029-68-3
92-45106
Women in Literature
Women--Mythology
Eve (Biblical Figure)
Indians of North America--Women
Women, Bedouin
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales
Tales--Psychological Aspects
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre
Women in Literature (Black African Women)
Arabic literature--Women authors
Ravikovitch, Dahlia
Women in Indic Literature
Shadow (Psychology)
Women Authors (South American)
Women Authors (South African)
Medea
Mabinogion
Suchieh
Women in Literature (Chinese)
Woolf, Virginia. 1882-1941
Women in Literature (Arab)
Women in Literature (Chicana)
Women in Literature (African American Women)
Delilah (Biblical Figure)
Music and Literature
PN56.W6 T6 1993
To speak or be silent; the paradox of disobedience in the lives of women - Wilmette, IL Chiron Publications c1993 - xxiv, 262p.; index
Contents: Eve: reflection on the psychology of the first disobedient woman, p3-12.. Before the fall(s): Native American women and the concept of disobedience, p13-24.. Analyzing resistance: Bedouin women's discourses, p25-36.. (Chaucer: Canterbury Tales) Strategies of defiance: the quest of the wife of Bath, p39-47.. Stepping off the path: disobedience and story-making in ' Little Red-Cap'. A variation of Little Red Riding Hood., p48-61.. Fairy Tale : Snow White : see index.. (Bronte, Charlotte) 'Speak I must': Jane Eyre and the discourse of disobedience, p62-74.. To speak or be spoken: some women in African literature, p75-84.. Apple, Nabila, and Ramza: Arab women's narratives of resistance, p85-96.. Staying in the place of danger: the disobedient, poetic 'I' of Dahlia Ravikovitch, p97-108.. Women who disobey: examples from India, p111-19.. (Shadow) The whirlwind and the spiral: state-sponsored terror and psychic resistance in Marta Traba's Mothers and Shadows, p120-29.. Medea's fiery chariot, p143-59.. Some archetypal foundations of self-spite in the Welsh Mabinogion, p160-76.. Suchieh: the untamed shrew of Hsing-shih Yin-yuan, p177-85 (Chinese). Virginia Woolf: the tragedy of unconscious disobedience, p186-94.. (Arab) Princess of resolution: the emergence of Al-Amira Dhat al-Himma, p197-209.. From Coatlicue to Dona Luz: Mitotes in Chicana literature, p210-25.. Lye throwers and lovely renegades: the road from bitch to hero for black women in fiction and poetry, p226-38.. Forbidden words-enchanting song: the treatment of Delilah in literature and music, p239-49.
'These essays offer a necessary compensation from a perspective that allows the voice of the feminine to be heard, with a sound that resonates as disobedience in the dominant patrifocal culture.'
Paperback (Katerbound)
0-933029-68-3
92-45106
Women in Literature
Women--Mythology
Eve (Biblical Figure)
Indians of North America--Women
Women, Bedouin
Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales
Tales--Psychological Aspects
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre
Women in Literature (Black African Women)
Arabic literature--Women authors
Ravikovitch, Dahlia
Women in Indic Literature
Shadow (Psychology)
Women Authors (South American)
Women Authors (South African)
Medea
Mabinogion
Suchieh
Women in Literature (Chinese)
Woolf, Virginia. 1882-1941
Women in Literature (Arab)
Women in Literature (Chicana)
Women in Literature (African American Women)
Delilah (Biblical Figure)
Music and Literature
PN56.W6 T6 1993