Tatterhood: Feminist Folktales From Around the World
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Tatterhood: Feminist Folktales From Around the World
Synopsis "Tatterhood: Feminist Folktales From Around the World"
From Japan to Norway, Scotland to Sudan, Tatterhood brings readers twelve folk talesand twelve women whose cunning, hard work, and physical strength are celebrated in each story. A family of three women teaches a burly man how to wrestle, a girl battles a fearsome bear, and a young mother rescues her village from an elephant's stomach.Ethel Johnston Phelps (19141984) held a master's degree in Medieval Literature, the co-editor of a Ricardian journal, and published several articles on fifteenth-century subjects. She compiled two anthologies of feminist folk tales from around the world, Tatterhood and The Maid of the North.
