Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Identifying, Collecting, and Interpreting Women’s Folklore
6. Reclaiming the Study of Our Cultural Lives 13
7. La grande oeuvre inachevée de soeur Catherine Jolicoeur 28
8. A Personal Odyssey and Personal Prejudices 39
9. Lessons from "Undisciplined" Ethnography: The Case of Jean D. Heffernan 49
10. Feminist Afterwords: Revisiting Copper Woman 65
11. Images of Women in Canadian Traditional and Popular Culture
12. Riddling the Witch: Violence against Women in Newfoundland Witch Tradition 77
13. Mother to Her Distant Children: The Icelandic Fjallkona in Canada 87
14. Changing Places: Dance, Society, and Gender in Cheticamp 101
15. ’The Handsome Cabin Boy": Cross-Dressing Ballads, Sexualities, and Gendered Meanings 113
16. Men in Women’s Clothes: Theatrical Transvestites on the Canadian Prairie 131
17. Kiss and Kill: Some Impacts of Cultural Representations of Women’s Sexualities 139
18. Help! Me, S/he, and the Boss 151
19. Images of Women in Canadian Traditional and Popular Culture
20. Frances Mateychuk’s Quilts: Mapping a Place 167
21. Continuité ou rupture: des signes vestimentaires sur la situation des femmes (Québec, vingtième siècle) 189
22. Miracle Lore and Metamorphoses 203
23. "Just Like One of the Boys": Tactics of Women Taxi Drivers 213
24. Circumventing the Taboos: Inuit Women’s Autobiographies 223
25. Making Time for Talk: Women’s Informal Gatherings In Cape St George, Newfoundland 234
26. Speaking Out in God’s Name: A Mennonite Woman Preaching 242
27. Difficult Women in Folktales: Two Women, Two Stories 250
28. Editors’ Concluding Statement 267
29. References 273
30. Contributors 297
31. Index 301