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*Borland, Katherine. 2007. Decolonizing Approaches to Feminist Research: The Case of Feminist Ethnography. In Handbook of Feminist Research: Theory and Praxis, 621-628. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.

*Folklore and Feminism 1987. Special issue of Journal of American Folklore 100(398).

*Jordan, Rosan A., and Susan J. Kalcik. 1985. Women’s Folklore, Women’s Culture. University of Pennsylvania Press.  

*Mills, Margaret. 1993. “Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore: A Twenty-Year Trajectory toward Theory.” Western Folklore 52 (2/4) (April 1): 173-192. 

*Radner, Joan. 1993. Feminist Messages: Coding in Women’s Folk Culture. University of Illinois Press.

*Women and Folklore: Images and Genres 1975.  Special issue of Journal of American Folklore. 88(347).