Undisciplined women : tradition and culture in Canada / edited by Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes some text in French.

Print version record.

Reclaiming the study of our cultural lives / Laurel Doucette -- Grande œuvre inachevée de sœur Catherine Jolicœur / RonaldLabelle -- Personal odyssey and personal prejudices / Edith Fowke -- Lessons from "undisciplined" ethnography : the case of Jean D. Heffernan / Diane Tye -- Feminist afterwords : revisitiing Copper Woman / Christine St. Peter -- Ridding the witch : violence against women in Newfoundland witch tradition / Barbara Rieti -- Mother to her distant children : the Icelandic Fjallkona in Canada / Anne Brydon -- Changing places : dance, society, and gender in Cheticamp / Barbara Le Blanc -- "Handsome Cabin Boy" : cross-dressing ballads, sexualities, and gendered meanings / Pauline Greenhill -- Men in women's clothes : theatrical transvestites on the Canadian prairie / Michael Taft -- Kiss and kill : some impacts of cultural representations of women's sexualities / Janice L. Ristock -- Help! Me, s/he, and the boss / Vivian Labrie -- Frances Mateychuk's quilt's : mapping a place / Susan Shantz -- Continuité ou rupture : des signes vestimentaires sur la situation des femmes (Québec, vingtième siècle) / Jocelyne Mathieu -- Miracle lore and metamorphoses / Gail Paton Grant -- "Just like one of the boys" : tactics of women taxi drivers / Cynthia Boyd -- Circumventing the taboos : Inuit women's autobiographies / Robin McGrath -- Making time for talk : women's informal gatherings in Cape St George, Newfoundland / Marie-Annick Desplanques -- Speaking out in God's name : a Mennonite woman preaching / Pamela E. Klassen -- Difficult women in folktales : two women, two stories / Kay Stone, with Marvyne Jenoff and Susan Gordon.

"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."--Jacket

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