Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture

Title
  1. Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger.
Published by
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.

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Additional authors
  1. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956-
  2. Doniger, Wendy.
Description
  1. ix, 226 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Women > Identity
  2. Hair > Social aspects
  3. Head > Social aspects
  4. Psychoanalysis
Contents
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  1. JFE 96-4151
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger.
Imprint
  1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1995.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956-
  2. Doniger, Wendy.
LCCN
  1. 95013310
ISBN
  1. 0520088395 (alk. paper)
  2. 0520088409 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Research call number
  1. JFE 96-4151
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