women folklore matches 45 work(s)
at beginning |
displaying 1 to 25 |
next 20 >
show results in order: alphabetically | oldest to newest | newest to oldest
1
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780786448319 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 19, 2010, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Many are familiar with Joseph Campbell's theory of the hero's journey, the idea that every man from Moses to Hercules grows to adulthood while battling his alter-ego.
2
Product Description: A bilingual collection of Southwestern folktales with some tricky women teaching people simple lessons. Humor shines through the fabric of these fables, with bad guys finding that the joke is, invariably, on them.—Bookpaper"Our favorite storyteller, Joe Hayes, goes in for a bit of affirmative action in this collection of his Hispanic folktales...read more
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Prebinding:
9781435246034 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, April 18, 2008), cover price $21.95 | About this edition: A bilingual collection of Southwestern folktales with some tricky women teaching people simple lessons.
3
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780865345874 | Sunstone Pr, July 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Spiders & Spinsters weaves a tapestry of voices and images--folk, popular, tribal, ancient and contemporary, by women and men, scholars and critics, psychologists and artists--to show how women have fared in classical Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and indigenous American mythologies.
4
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9781590302934 | Trumpeter, November 14, 2006, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: We are thirteen indigenous grandmothers.
5
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780691117072 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 22, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The tale of Bluebeard's Wife--the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses--no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children.
Paperback:
9780691127835 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 13, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: The tale of Bluebeard's Wife--the story of a young woman who discovers that her mysterious blue-bearded husband has murdered his former spouses--no longer squares with what most parents consider good bedtime reading for their children.
6
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9781573242202 | Conari Pr, January 20, 2005, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: This book is full of humorous housewifely notions that our grandmothers and great-grandmothers most likely swore by.
7
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780761506546 | Prima Pub, November 1, 1996, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Explores myths and tales about old women from around the world as a guide to the wisdom that old age brings to women
Paperback:
9781884244247 | Volcano Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In many cultures, women are revered as they grow older.
9780761512929 | Prima Pub, March 1, 1998, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Explores myths and tales about old women from around the world as a guide to the wisdom that old age brings to women
8
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780316387019 | Little Brown & Co, September 1, 2000, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: A collection of twenty traditional tales from various parts of the world, each of whose main character is a strong and resourceful woman.
9
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
School and Library:
9780152020477 | Harcourt Childrens Books, May 1, 2000, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: A collection of thirteen traditional tales from various parts of the world, with the main character of each being a fearless, strong, heroic, and resourceful woman.
10
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780670889075 | Viking Pr, April 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Celebrates the mother-daughter bond around the world, with a collection of folktalkes that span the globe, from France's version of Cinderella to less well known stories from Sudan and China.
11
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780399525469 | Perigee, November 1, 1999, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of folklore celebrates the power of women and the treachery of human nature
12
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780874835762 | August House Pub Inc, October 1, 1999, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Matches folktales about women from around the world with the stories of successful American women
13
When a demon swallows the rain seed and destroys all the brave men who go after it, including Mala's brother, Mala's godmothers change her into a boy called Amal so that he can hunt the demon, and give him a mirror so that he can call upon the female part of himself.When a demon swallows the rain seed, Mala's godmothers change her into a boy called Amal so that he can hunt the demon, and give him a mirror so that he can call upon the female part of himself
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
School and Library:
9781550375015 | Annick Pr, August 1, 1996, cover price $16.95
Prebinding:
9780613101905 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $15.25 | About this edition: When a demon swallows the rain seed and destroys all the brave men who go after it, including Mala's brother, Mala's godmothers change her into a boy called Amal so that he can hunt the demon, and give him a mirror so that he can call upon the female part of himself.
14
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Prebinding:
9780613014861 | Turtleback Books, October 1, 1999, cover price $24.45 | About this edition: A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of traditional tales from New Mexico about resourceful women
15
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9781573922647 | Prometheus Books, February 1, 1999, cover price $27.98 | About this edition: Explores cultural, religious, philosophical, and scientific beliefs about women
16
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780919123847 | Inner City Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
17
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9780939923687 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: The Serpent and the Swan is a history and analysis of animal bride tales from antiquity to the present.
18
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780313304422 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 30, 1998, cover price $87.95 | About this edition: Proverbs supposedly contain the wisdom of the common folk—eternal truths to be passed down through the ages.
19
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780874778182 | J P Tarcher, June 1, 1996, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Notes on well-known myths and case studies from the author's therapy practice accompany a collection of folktales that reveal the complexity, and meaning of femininity
Paperback:
9780874778632 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Gathered from around the world and culled by the author from 7,000 folktales, these stories of a vigorous, potent femininity beyond that of the helpless princess focus on mature, capable women and set traditional plots on their ears.
20
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780345377449 | Reissue edition (Ballantine Books, May 1, 1992), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A Jungian analyst explores the feminine psyche through stories of 'wild women'--the mythological archetype of the strong, primitive woman
Paperback:
9780345409874 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, January 1, 1997), cover price $7.99 | About this edition: A Jungian analyst explores the feminine psyche through stories of 'wild women'--the mythological archetype of the strong, primitive woman
9780345396815 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, December 1, 1995), cover price $18.00 | About this edition: A Jungian analyst explores the feminine psyche through stories of 'wild women'--the mythological archetype of the strong, primitive woman
21
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
School and Library:
9781550374919 | Annick Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: When a demon swallows the rain seed and destroys all the brave men who go after it, including Mala's brother, Mala's godmothers change her into a boy called Amal so that he can hunt the demon, and give him a mirror so that he can call upon the female part of himself.
22
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Paperback:
9781550374902 | Annick Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: When a demon swallows the rain seed and destroys all the brave men who go after it, including Mala's brother, Mala's godmothers change her into a boy called Amal so that he can hunt the demon, and give him a mirror so that he can call upon the female part of himself.
23
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780374159016 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1995, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: From classical enchantresses to Mother Goose to the Brothers Grimm, a cultural study of fairy tales shows what they reveal about the changing status of women, the ways of men, racial prejudice, and other serious subjects
Paperback:
9780374524876 | Noonday Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend-from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world.
24
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780812693010 | Open Court Pub Co, December 1, 1995, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: 'Tell It by Heart' is a collection of stories about contemporary women of various ages and ethnic backgrounds who have one thing in common: each embraces a pertinent myth as her guide through a difficult passage.
Paperback:
9780812693027 | Open Court Pub Co, December 1, 1995, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: 'Tell It by Heart' is a collection of stories about contemporary women of various ages and ethnic backgrounds who have one thing in common: each embraces a pertinent myth as her guide through a difficult passage.
25
Edition summary (click for prices and details):
Hardcover:
9780814750681 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds.
Paperback:
9780814751008 | Reprint edition (New York Univ Pr, September 1, 1995), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In her compendious study, [of the folktale of the runaway wife] Leavy argues that the contradictory claims of nature and culture are embodied in the legendary figure of the swan maiden, a woman torn between the human and bestial worlds.
at beginning |
displaying 1 to 25 |
next 20 >