E314: Voices of Women
Library research tools for courses E314 / C414 / F363
Class Page for E314 Voices of Women
Moira Smith, librarian for Folklore
molsmith@indiana.edu
Wells Library E760
September 2008
Resources for Researching Women:
Academic Search Premier (for general topics)
Anthropology Plus (for ethnographic and cross-cultural topics)
Gender Studies Database (for women and gender topics generally)
MLA International Bibliography (for folklore topics)
Guide to Finding Folktales in the Library
1. To locate variants of the same tale:
First, find the Aarne-Thompson type number for your tale:
a. Type Index
b. Ashliman (especially if there is a variant in Grimm)
c. MacDonald
d. Look in the headnotes or index of tale types in a collection of tales (See References Part 2)
Second, use this number to lookup variants in other sources (listed in order of ease of use):
a. Ashliman (especially if there is a variant in Grimm)
b. MacDonald 1982 and 2003
c. Look for a collection with an index of tale types (see references Part 2)
d. Aarne-Thompson Type Index
General Folktale Collections:
Folktales of the World
A series of folktale collections published by the University of Chicago Press. Titles in the series include Folktales of Egypt, Folktales of Hungary, etc. Find all of them in IUCAT by searching for the series title.
Briggs, Katharine Mary. A dictionary of British folk-tales in the English language. Section A, vols. 1-2. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970.
GR140 .B854
Dorson, Richard Mercer. Folktales Told around the World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975.
GR15 .F669
Halpert, Herbert. Folktales of Newfoundland: the resilience of the oral tradition. New York: Garland, 1996. 2 vols.
GR113.5.N54 H35 1996
Lindahl, Carl. American Folktales: From the Collections of the Library of Congress. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
GR105.5 .A44 2004 v.1-2
Thompson, Stith. One hundred favorite folktales. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968.
GR25 .T476
Some Folktale Collections from a Woman’s Perspective:
El-Shamy, Hasan M. Tales Arab women tell: and the behavioral patterns they portray. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
GR268.A73 T35 1999 ON RESERVE
Palko, Zsuzsanna. Hungarian folktales: The art of Zsuzsanna Palko. New York: Garland, 1995.
GR154.7.K39 P35 1995
Mathias, Elizabeth. Italian folktales in America: the verbal art of an immigrant woman. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985.
GR111.I73 M38 1985
Gernant, Karen. Imagining women: Fujian folk tales. New York: Interlink Books, 1995.
GR336.F8 I43 1995
Carter, Angela, ed. The Old wives' fairy tale book. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990.
GR470 .O43 1990
Yolen, Jane and Heidi E.Y. Stemple, eds. Mirror, mirror: forty folktales for mothers and daughters to share. New York: Viking, 2000.
HQ755.85 .M57 2000
Hazen-Hammond, Susan. Spider woman's web: traditional Native American tales about women’s power. New York: Perigee Book, 1999.
E98.F6 H545 1999
Carter, Angela ed. The Old wives' fairy tale book. New York: Pantheon Books, c1990.
GR470 .O43 1990
Carter, Angela ed. Strange things sometimes still happen: fairy tales from around the world. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1993.
GR552 .S43 1993
Jain, Jagdish Chandra. Women in ancient Indian tales. Delhi, India: Mittal Publications, 1987.
GR305 .J34 1987
Women in Chinese folklore. Beijing, China: Women of China : Distributed by China Publications Centre, 1983.
GR335 .W66 1983
Tale Type and Motif Indexes:
Aarne, Antti. The types of the folktale: a classification and bibliography (“Aarne-Thompson Index”). Helsinki : Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1961.
Folklore Reference Shelves GR1 .F605 no.184
Ashliman, D. L. A guide to folktales in the English language: based on the Aarne-Thompson classification system. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.
Folklore Reference Shelves Z5983.F17 A83 1987
MacDonald, Margaret Read. The storyteller's sourcebook: a subject, title, and motif index to folklore collections for children. Detroit, Mich.: Neal-Schuman Publishers in association with Gale Research, 1982.
Folklore Reference Shelves GR74.6 .M3 1982
MacDonald, Margaret Read, and Brian W. Sturm. The Storyteller's Sourcebook: A Subject, Title, and Motif Index to Folklore Collections for Children, 1983-1999. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.
Folklore Reference Shelves GR74.6 .M3 2001
