Independent Women and Independent Body Parts
What the Tales and Legends of Nannette Lévesque can Contribute to French Rural Family History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7094752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William G Pooley (0000-0003-0219-4470, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 121 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 190-212 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.2010.481150 |
| OpenAlex | W1806990861 |
| Language | NL |
| References cited | 27 |
Historians of rural societies should consider using folklore sources in order to understand rural families in nineteenth-century France. A source like the stories collected from seventy-year-old Nannette Lévesque by the judge Victor Smith offers a very different viewpoint to depictions of such families by historians. Nannette was extremely poor, and spent her life moving between the mountain village where she was born in the Massif Central and the town of Saint-Étienne. Her stories call into question the reality of family “strategies” and the control of women by patriarchal authority, posited by some scholars of rural French family life
Archaeology · Art history · Ethnology · Family life · Folklore · Genealogy · Order (exchange · Political science · Rural area · SAINT · Sociology · Classics · French Historical and Cultural Studies · French Urban and Social Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law
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Politics in the Rural Society
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Interpretation of Fairy Tales
Narratives in Society
Family and Province
Interpreting Legend
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Peasants into Frenchmen
Possession on the Borders
The Psycho-Analysis of Children
Interest and Emotion
Peasants into Frenchmen
Female Forms of Power and the Myth of Male Dominance
The Evidence of Experience
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |