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Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger.

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
  • Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956-
  • Doniger, Wendy
Description
ix, 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Head > Social aspects
  • Women > Identity
  • Hair > Social aspects
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Feminism Related to Culture
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0520088395 (alk. paper)
  • 0520088409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^95013310^
OCLC
  • 32274972
  • SCSB-10688798
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library