Description: Further DetailsTitle: Off with Her Head!Condition: NewSubtitle: The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and CultureISBN-10: 0520088409EAN: 9780520088405ISBN: 9780520088405Publisher: University of California PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 11/14/1995Description: Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head. The female head threatens to disrupt the classic gender distinctions that link men to speech, identity, and mind while relegating women to silence, anonymity, and flesh. The contributors to this collection argue that the objectification of women as sexual and reproductive bodies results in their symbolic beheading. Decapitation occurs symbolically in myths as well as in actual practices such as veiling, head covering, and cosmetic highlighting, which by sexualizing a woman's face turns it into an extension of her body. The essays explore how similar treatments of the female head find their unique articulation in diverse religious traditions and cultures: in Hindu myths of beheading, in Buddhist and Tantric practices and poetry about the hair of female nuns, in the resistance to veiling by early Christian women at Corinth, in contemporary veiling practices in a Turkish village, in the eroticization of the female mouth in ancient Judaism, and in Greek and Roman cosmetic practices.Together these essays show how the depiction of the female head is critical for an understanding of gender and its influence on other fundamental religious and cultural issues.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 408gContributor: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz (Edited by), Wendy Doniger (Edited by)Author: Howard Eilberg-SchwartzGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Society & Culture, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 1995 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Off with Her Head!
Title: Off with Her Head!
Subtitle: The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture
ISBN-10: 0520088409
EAN: 9780520088405
ISBN: 9780520088405
Release Date: 11/14/1995
Release Year: 1995
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Contributor: Wendy Doniger (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
Number of Pages: 242 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Off with Her Head! : the Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Movements / Psychoanalysis, Gender Studies, Comparative Religion, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year: 1995
Item Height: 0.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Author: Wendy Doniger
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science, Psychology
Item Length: 0.9 in
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
