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Creation and Procreation : Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition / Marta Weigle.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publications of the American Folklore Society New SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1990Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) : 22 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812280968
  • 9781512809008
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Notes on Cosmogony and Creativity -- 2 Spiders and Spinsters in Creation Mythology -- 3 Creator and Procreator -- 4 Impregnation and Conception -- 4 Impregnation and Conception -- 6 Couvade and Parturition -- 7 Midwifery and the Dialogue of Mythos and Mundus -- Appendix: Selected Texts of Creation and Procreation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index
Summary: This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512809008

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Notes on Cosmogony and Creativity -- 2 Spiders and Spinsters in Creation Mythology -- 3 Creator and Procreator -- 4 Impregnation and Conception -- 4 Impregnation and Conception -- 6 Couvade and Parturition -- 7 Midwifery and the Dialogue of Mythos and Mundus -- Appendix: Selected Texts of Creation and Procreation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Index

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)