Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

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This book presents a new examination of Victorian nurses which challenges commonly-held assumptions about their character and motivation.

Aging and Creativity examines the effects of aging on creative functioning, including age-related changes in cognition, personality, and motivation that affect performance or output.

This book examines school and college fiction for girls in Britain and the United States, written in the first half of the twentieth century, to explore the formation and ideologies of feminine identity.

Folklore and folktales belong to the oral tradition of narrative literature Folktales includes legends, fables, fairy stories, ghost stories, stories of giant sand saints, devils and spirits, husband and wife tales, short humorous tales mostly relating to local characters As such folktales is a narrative literature, having supernatural, superstitions, high imagery, glorification and many more elements.

The first anthology ever to present the entire range of ancient Greek and Roman stories-from myths and fairy tales to jokesCaptured centaurs and satyrs, talking animals, people who suddenly change sex, men who give birth, the temporarily insane and the permanently thick-witted, delicate sensualists, incompetent seers, a woman who remembers too much, a man who cannot laugh-these are just some of the colorful characters who feature in the unforgettable stories that ancient Greeks and Romans told in their daily lives.

A Class by Herself explores the historical role and influence of protective legislation for American women workers, both as a step toward modern labor standards and as a barrier to equal rights.

Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon.

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public lifeIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures.

Unrivalled Influence explores the exceptional roles that women played in the vibrant cultural and political life of medieval Byzantium.

A groundbreaking history of how elite colleges and universities in America and Britain finally went coedAs the tumultuous decade of the 1960s ended, a number of very traditional, very conservative, highly prestigious colleges and universities in the United States and the United Kingdom decided to go coed, seemingly all at once, in a remarkably brief span of time.

A delightful collection of modern Chinese talesThe Dragon Daughter and Other Lin Lan Fairy Tales brings together forty-two magical Chinese tales, most appearing for the first time in English.

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From the river valleys of interior British Columbia south to the hills of northern Oregon and east to the continental divide in western Montana, hundreds of cliffs and boulders display carved and painted designs created by ancient artists who inhabited this area, the Columbia Plateau, as long as seven thousand years ago.

What prompts children to tell stories?

Fairy tales and folktales have long been mainstays of children's literature, celebrated as imaginatively liberating, psychologically therapeutic, and mirrors of foreign culture.

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In Women in Psychiatry, 21 accomplished women psychiatrists in private practice, teaching institutions, hospitals, public health treatment programs, and leadership positions reveal both the challenges and rewards of being in a wide array of professional positions.

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It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her.

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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it has been experienced and represented in the modern period.

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A biography of the Kentucky women's rights activist and progressive reformer, featuring personal interviews and recently discovered correspondence.

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China's late Chairman Mao Zedong once said "e;Women hold up half the world"e;, but in several respects the full emancipation of women still remains a global challenge.

A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fictionIreland's Immortals tells the story of one of the world's great mythologies.

A comparative look at female political activism in today's most influential Israeli and Palestinian religious movementsHow do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles?

The Russian writer Lydia Ginzburg (1902-90) is best known for her Notes from the Leningrad Blockade and for influential critical studies, such as On Psychological Prose, investigating the problem of literary character in French and Russian novels and memoirs.

The real history of the Amazons in war and loveAmazons-fierce warrior women dwelling on the fringes of the known world-were the mythic archenemies of the ancient Greeks.

An argument against treating our bodies as commoditiesNo one wants to be treated like an object, regarded as an item of property, or put up for sale.

How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian intellectualsphilologists, administrators, doctors, ethnologists, sociologists, and social criticsdeployed ideas about sexuality to understand modern Indian society.

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A mere 150 years ago Scottish Gaelic was the third most widely spoken language in Canada, and Irish was spoken by hundreds of thousands of people in the United States.

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A comprehensive study of the pervasive misogyny that left women behind while British society moved toward the Age of Enlightenment.

The story of Leeds is bound up in the stories of its women workers.

Explores the many forms and abilities of the devil in stories from around the world*; Draws on folk traditions from all over Europe, including Transylvanian Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Switzerland, Italy, France, Scandinavia, and the Baltic countries*; Traces the devil's shapeshifting powers back to their Vedic origins in ancient India and looks at his connections with witches and storm magic*; Reveals how many of the qualities and magical powers attributed to the devil were once those belonging to pagan godsThe devil has many more guises than the clich red boogeyman named Lucifer or Satan who haunts Christianity.

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