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dc.contributor.authorMcKay, Kathrynen
dc.contributor.authorDune, Tinasheen
dc.contributor.authorMacPhail, Catherineen
dc.contributor.authorMapedzahama, Virginiaen
dc.contributor.authorMaple, Myfanwyen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-12T10:05:00Z-
dc.date.issued2013-
dc.identifier.citation1st Global Making Sense Of: Time, Space & the Body Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers, p. 1-9en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/14208-
dc.description.abstractThrough the ages, and within myriad cultural contexts, fairytales and folklore have taught children and adolescents morality and socially acceptable behaviours. In particular, fairytales and folklore propagate ideals about the ways in which female characters should best behave, and the ways in which others interact with them. On the one hand, women who were perceived to enact the correct behaviours were rewarded with marriage and motherhood. On the other hand, women who deviated from such behaviours were relegated to spinsterhood or witchery. There is underlying assumption that women are not only seeking to have their bodies inscribed by heterosexual sex, marriage and motherhood but that this is their only reward. They cannot be the heroes; they are always and simply a prize. This workshop seeks to make sense of how fairytales and folklore construct a values system where a woman's worth and place within a society is based on the type of sexuality she is attributed. Considering the enduring nature of fairytales and folklore, deconstructing the ways in which they portray women, and their bodies, over time is important to problematising the assumptions that women should - be virgins, get married and become mothers. It problematises the fact that women have to be obedient, and require men, in order to be of societal value, to exist - without which, women are banished and exiled. This workshop will seek to demonstrate that such enduring representations, well into the 21st-century, have tangible implications for women's wellbeing - mental, physical and sexual. Within a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural frame, the workshop will examine the following aspects which will then be open to discussion: 1.Marriage as 'happily-ever-after' in European fairytales; 2.Shona-Zimbabwean folklore and labia-pulling; 3.Virginity-testing and South African folklore; and, 4.'Realistically'-ever-after in Zimbabwean folklore.en
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dc.publisherInter-Disciplinary.Neten
dc.relation.ispartof1st Global Making Sense Of: Time, Space & the Body Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papersen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesProbing the Boundariesen
dc.titleFairytales, Folklore and Femininity: Making Sense of the (Un)Sexed Female Body Across Time and Spaceen
dc.typeConference Publicationen
dc.relation.conference1st Global Making Sense Of: Time, Space & the Body Conferenceen
dc.subject.keywordsGender Specific Studiesen
local.contributor.firstnameKathrynen
local.contributor.firstnameTinasheen
local.contributor.firstnameCatherineen
local.contributor.firstnameVirginiaen
local.contributor.firstnameMyfanwyen
local.subject.for2008169901 Gender Specific Studiesen
local.subject.seo2008959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classifieden
local.profile.schoolSchool of Rural Medicineen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Rural Medicineen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Rural Medicineen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Rural Medicineen
local.profile.schoolSchool of Healthen
local.profile.emailkmckay8@une.edu.auen
local.profile.emailtdune@une.edu.auen
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local.profile.emailvmapedza@une.edu.auen
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local.record.institutionUniversity of New Englanden
local.identifier.epublicationsrecordune-20140226-20181en
local.date.conference11th - 13th February, 2013en
local.conference.placeSydney, Australiaen
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local.identifier.runningnumberSession 5aen
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local.title.subtitleMaking Sense of the (Un)Sexed Female Body Across Time and Spaceen
local.contributor.lastnameMcKayen
local.contributor.lastnameDuneen
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local.contributor.lastnameMapedzahamaen
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local.title.maintitleFairytales, Folklore and Femininityen
local.output.categorydescriptionE2 Non-Refereed Scholarly Conference Publicationen
local.relation.urlhttp://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/making-sense-of/time-space-and-the-body/project-archives/conference-programme-papers-and-abstracts/en
local.relation.urlhttp://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/TSB1-McDMcMM-Feb2013-McKayetal.pdfen
local.conference.details1st Global Making Sense Of: Time, Space & the Body Conference, Sydney, Australia, 11th - 13th February, 2013en
local.search.authorMcKay, Kathrynen
local.search.authorDune, Tinasheen
local.search.authorMacPhail, Catherineen
local.search.authorMapedzahama, Virginiaen
local.search.authorMaple, Myfanwyen
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local.year.published2013en
local.subject.for2020440599 Gender studies not elsewhere classifieden
local.subject.seo2020139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classifieden
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