Undisciplined Women: Tradition and Culture in Canada

by Diane Tye and Pauline Greenhill

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773516158
• ISBN13: 9780773516151
• Release Date: May 1998
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.