Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction: Tradition, Transgression, Compromise -- 1. Traditions of Patriarchy and the Missing Female Voice in Russian Folklore Scholarship -- 2. Age and Gender Status and Identity: Structure and History -- 3. Subjectivity and the Relational Self in Russian Village Women's Stories of Courtship and Marriage -- 4. The Pleasure, Power, and Nostalgia of Melodrama: Twentieth-Century Singing Traditions and Women's Identity Construction -- 5. Transgression as Communicative Act: Rural Women's Chastushki -- 6. Magical Forces and the Symbolic Resources of Motherhood -- 7. Magic, Control, and Social Roles -- 8. Constructing Identity in Stories of the Other World -- 9. Death, the Dead, and Memory-Keepers -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Notes -- References -- Index. |