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31	From tales of enchantment to tales of empowerment: Finding women's voices through fairy tale narratives. Zigman, Jane. January 2000 (has links) Research suggests that fairy tales permeate society and affect subjective identity through old and new versions that serve to domesticate desire. While some researchers suggest that fairy tales have negative effects on how women construct their lives, others claim that women resist or subvert their restrictive meanings and gender roles. From a cultural studies perspective, this case study investigates the perceived impact of fairy tales on subjectivity, as well as on past and present life choices. Feminist, poststructuralist, and psychoanalytic analyses uncover how subjective identities may be produced and resisted through cultural influences like fairy tales. Thematic analysis of group discussions and written responses by mature women show that fairy tales are instrumental in forming subjective identities and influencing the life choices of participants. The findings of this study indicate that some participants perceive fairy tales to be influential in constituting the life stories that they were able to imagine, while group discussions and written responses of other participants also demonstrate possible influences of fairy tales in their lives. This research may help educators understand how this process occurs in order to create programs that effectively resist or subvert messages internalized in this way. Folklore.
32	Paumanok Islands Unknown Date (has links) Paumanok Islands is a novel concerned with characters leaving histories of tyranny. The main protagonist is a woman named Lupe, whose life as a travel agent in a Long Island beach town is upended when she sees a picture that incidentally includes her husband, who disappeared more than ten years before. The novel follows her as she investigates what might have happened to him and why everyone connected with the photograph appears to be disappearing. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Fine Arts. / Spring Semester 2019. / April 5, 2019. / Fiction, Mystery, Novel / Includes bibliographical references. / Elizabeth Stuckey-French, Professor Directing Thesis; Ravi Howard, Committee Member; Skip Horack, Committee Member; Diane Roberts, Committee Member. Folklore
33	The UFO debate: a study of a contemporary legend Milligan, Linda Jean January 1988 (has links) No description available. Folklore
34	Conscious and unconscious use of stories in Outward Bound: a folkloric examination of the personal experience stories of outdoor adventure education Iistructors / McInnes, J. Andrew January 1996 (has links) No description available. Folklore
35	Reading tourist sites, citing touristic readings : Anglo constructions of Native American identity and the case of Tecumseh / Hathaway, Rosemary Virginia January 1998 (has links) No description available. Folklore
36	A theory of story as argument : folklore, narrative, and the contemporary writing classroom / Cox, Cynthia Anne January 2000 (has links) No description available. Folklore
37	Reconfiguring home, world and cosmos: health initiatives in women’s self-help groups in Kanyakumari, India Subramanian, Shobana 14 September 2006 (has links) No description available. Folklore
38	Revising the past : a performance-centered analysis of personal experience narratives about divorce / MacDaniel, Elizabeth Jo January 1989 (has links) No description available. Folklore
39	Exoticism in the mélodie : the evolution of exotic techniques as used in songs by David, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Roussel, Delage, Milhaud, and Messiaen / Randles, Kathleen Martha January 1992 (has links) No description available. Folklore
40	"As Long As We Dance We Shall Know Who We Are" : a study of off-reservation traditional intertribal powwows in Central Ohio / Sanchez, Victoria Eugenie January 1995 (has links) No description available. Folklore

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