Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture

By: Radner, Joan

Book Overview

Burning dinners, stitching "scandalous" quilts, talking "hard" in the male dominated world of rap music---Feminist Messages interprets such acts as instances of coding, or covert expressions of subversive or disturbing ideas. While coding may be either deliberated or unconscious, it is a common phenomenon in women's stories, art, and daily routines. Because it is essentially ambiguous, coding protects women from potentially dangerous responses from those who might be troubled by their messages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252062671
• ISBN13: 9780252062674
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"