TY - BOOK AU - Weigle,Marta TI - Creation and Procreation: Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition T2 - Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series SN - 9780812280968 PY - 2016///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Folklore & Mythology KW - bisacsh KW - Anthropology KW - Folklore KW - Linguistics N1 - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809008 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512809008 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781512809008/original ER -