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Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture
- Title
- Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. The spectacle of the female head / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- "Put a bag over her head" : beheading mythological women / Wendy Doniger -- Shaven heads and loose hair : Buddhist attitudes toward hair and sexuality / Karen Lang -- Untangling the meanings of hair in Turkish society / Carol Delaney -- The gendered grammar of ancient Mediterranean hair / Molly Myerowitz Levine -- Veils, virgins, and the tongues of men and angels : women's heads in early Christianity / Mary Rose D'Angelo.
- The nakedness of a woman's voice, the pleasure in a man's mouth : an oral history of ancient Judaism / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- Making up a woman : the face of Roman gender / Amy Richlin.
- Call Number
- JFE 96-4151
- ISBN
- 0520088395 (alk. paper)
- 0520088409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95013310
- OCLC
- 32274972
- Title
- Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956-Doniger, Wendy.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 96-4151