Warrior Women & Popular Balladry
uncovers & explores a fascination with
women cross-dressers
in early modern Europe and America.
Masquerading as men, seeking adventure,
going to war or sea for love and glory,
cross-dressing women flourished
in all kinds of literature, especially ballads,
from the time of Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf.
These female heroes--gender-queering
in our terms--
are important in folklore and culture.
They prompt our rethinking of gender
and sexuality then and now,
as these are continually
re-invented and enacted.
For more on this book see :
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/btgPj6eDZvMC?hl=en
uncovers & explores a fascination with
women cross-dressers
in early modern Europe and America.
Masquerading as men, seeking adventure,
going to war or sea for love and glory,
cross-dressing women flourished
in all kinds of literature, especially ballads,
from the time of Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf.
These female heroes--gender-queering
in our terms--
are important in folklore and culture.
They prompt our rethinking of gender
and sexuality then and now,
as these are continually
re-invented and enacted.
For more on this book see :
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/btgPj6eDZvMC?hl=en
For a sample of songs from Warrior Women,
see 'Dangerous Examples'--Fighting & Sailing Women in Song :
https://open.spotify.com/album/5emuv4h2sd0whpql2uhjm5?go=1&sp_cid=4f614518b67eaa573fc61cbddbd09a78&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=814d2a0ed1914b4b
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dangerous-examples-fighting-sailing-women-in-song/30933778
see 'Dangerous Examples'--Fighting & Sailing Women in Song :
https://open.spotify.com/album/5emuv4h2sd0whpql2uhjm5?go=1&sp_cid=4f614518b67eaa573fc61cbddbd09a78&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=814d2a0ed1914b4b
https://music.apple.com/us/album/dangerous-examples-fighting-sailing-women-in-song/30933778
For an On-line Archive see :
The Warrior Women Project
Another Link :
https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/24
A collaboration between The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA, University of California, Santa Barbara) ) and a team headed by Dr. Simone Chess (Wayne State University English Department),
WWP is a digital archive of “Warrior Women” ballads catalogued by Dianne Dugaw for The Female Warrior Heroine in Anglo-American Balladry (UCLA, 1982). Though her research appears in Warrior Women and Popular Balladry (Cambridge U Press, 1989; pbk, U of Chicago Press, 1996), its basis--a catalogue & collection of 113 ballads--was never published. WWP digitizes the original collection as a searchable research tool and historical record. The database is mapped, sorted, and searched with links for each song to other online iterations on the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), as well as its listing in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
The Warrior Women Project
Another Link :
https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/page/24
A collaboration between The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA, University of California, Santa Barbara) ) and a team headed by Dr. Simone Chess (Wayne State University English Department),
WWP is a digital archive of “Warrior Women” ballads catalogued by Dianne Dugaw for The Female Warrior Heroine in Anglo-American Balladry (UCLA, 1982). Though her research appears in Warrior Women and Popular Balladry (Cambridge U Press, 1989; pbk, U of Chicago Press, 1996), its basis--a catalogue & collection of 113 ballads--was never published. WWP digitizes the original collection as a searchable research tool and historical record. The database is mapped, sorted, and searched with links for each song to other online iterations on the English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), Early English Books Online (EEBO) and Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO), as well as its listing in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
For an interview on Back Page with Jody Seay about Warrior Women and Popular Balladry (28 min.)
see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV2QijkJ4CA
see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV2QijkJ4CA
& SOME OTHER BOOKS . . .
( to look for online or in your library )
( to look for online or in your library )
"Deep Play” examines the 18th-century emergence of modern self- & social-consciousness. John Gay's revolutionary drama & poetry reveal an eye-opening awareness of class & culture. Ballads & songs, country dances, catches, mumming plays, folk beliefs & sayings, fables, stories, & legends--these shared plebeian materials, in Gay's imagination challenge the dominance, inequities, & distortions of "high" culture & governance. Gay looks appreciatively, critically, & often hilariously from the vantage of ordinary people.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/1611491959
https://rowman.com/ISBN/1611491959
This panoramic overview shows how study of ballads marked the onset of an aesthetic & scholarly interest in popular culture. These touchstone essays begin with Joseph Addison in 1711 & include scholars up to the present who highlight pivotal questions, methods, & concerns in this history of scholarship. Together they tell a story--about orality & writing, individual creativity & performance, tradition & community, as well as national genealogies & contexts--that examination of the songs alone cannot provide. Each selection is preceded by an introduction on its importance & relevance.
https://www.routledge.com/The-Anglo-American-Ballad-A-Folklore-Casebook/Dugaw/p/book/9781138122314 A Volume in the Series |
These memoirs published in the 18th century feature cross-dressing women soldiers & sailors, courtesans, & women forced to live lives of risk & impropriety, often because of unscrupulous men. These accounts convey the outspoken & rarely heard voices of women writers of a past world. Their remarkable stories of ingenuity, courage, & survival in the face of hardship make compelling & surprising reading. Each narrative is preceded by an introduction outlining the context, importance, & relevance. https://www.routledge.com/Memoirs-of-Scandalous-Women/Dugaw/p/book/9781851968763 A Volume in the Series |