Creation and Procreation : : Feminist Reflections on Mythologies of Cosmogony and Parturition / / Marta Weigle.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Weigle, Marta,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Publications of the American Folklore Society New Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 22 illus.
• Other title: 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 --; 6 Couvade and Parturition --; 7 Midwifery and the Dialogue of Mythos and Mundus --; Appendix: Selected Texts of Creation and Procreation --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Permissions --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512809008; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512809008
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marta Weigle.

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.