Taking Liberties, Writing from the Margins, and Doing It with a Difference

Bibliographic Data

ID2811793
AuthorsBarbara A Babcock (corresponding author)
Year1987
Volume100
Issue398
Pages390
Publication date1987-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American Folklore (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8715 • E-ISSN: 1535-1882
PublisherUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/540900
OpenAlexW2333367745
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This essay suggests several intersections betweenfolklore andfeminist theory by reviewing three women who have engendered significant dislocations in the economy of cultural representations. Discussion of my work with Helen Cordero points up the needforfeministfolklorists to attend not only to women'sfolklore and womenfolk but to examine and redefine disciplinary paradigms and discursive practices offolklore scholarship. The invisibility of Elsie Clews Parsons and her work illustrates the need to rewrite the history of the discipline to include women and to review the contributions of womenfolklorists. The Statue of Liberty and the events of her Centennial are discussed as a monumental reason why we need cultural analysisfrom afeminist point of view andfolklore analysis of woman as sign

Cultural History and Identity Formation · History · Music History and Culture · Psychology · Theater, Performance, and Music History

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