Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger.
Contributor(s): Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard
| Doniger, Wendy
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: ix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520088395 (alk. paper); 0520088409 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Head -- Social aspects | Women -- Identity | Hair -- Social aspects | PsychoanalysisDDC classification: 305.42 LOC classification: GT498.H43 | O34 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | 1 West | GT498.H43 O34 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902001037 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.