Ross, Lena B (ed) <br/><br/>
To speak or be silent; the paradox of disobedience in the lives of women 

 - Wilmette, IL  Chiron Publications  c1993 
 - xxiv, 262p.; index 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> '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.' 
<br/><br/> Paperback (Katerbound) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-933029-68-3 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>92-45106 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women in Literature<br/>Women--Mythology<br/>Eve (Biblical Figure)<br/>Indians of North America--Women<br/>Women, Bedouin<br/>Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. Canterbury tales<br/>Tales--Psychological Aspects<br/>Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-1855. Jane Eyre<br/>Women in Literature (Black African Women)<br/>Arabic literature--Women authors<br/>Ravikovitch, Dahlia<br/>Women in Indic Literature<br/>Shadow (Psychology)<br/>Women Authors (South American)<br/>Women Authors (South African)<br/>Medea<br/>Mabinogion<br/>Suchieh<br/>Women in Literature (Chinese)<br/>Woolf, Virginia. 1882-1941<br/>Women in Literature (Arab)<br/>Women in Literature (Chicana)<br/>Women in Literature (African American Women)<br/>Delilah (Biblical Figure)<br/>Music and Literature
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN56.W6 T6 1993