Off with her head. The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture PDF
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Off with Her Head! Rene Magritte, Le Viol (The Rape), c. 1945. (© 1994 C. Herscovici/ ARS, New York; Giraudon/Art Resource, New York) Off with Her Head! The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture EDITED BY Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, Califomia University of Califomia Press, Ltd. London, England © 1995 by The Regents of the University of Califomia Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Offwith her head! : the denial ofwomen's identity in myth, religion, and culture / edited by Howard Eilberg-Schwartz and Wendy Doniger. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-08839-5 (alk. paper). - ISBN 0-520-08840-9 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Head-Social aspects. 2. Women-Identity. 3. Hair-Social aspects. 4. Psychoanalysis. I. Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956- II. Doniger, Wendy. GT498.H43034 1995 305.42-dc20 95-13310 CIP Lyric excerpt on p. 185 from "I Eajoy Being a Girl" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II© 1958 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Copyright renewed. Williamson Music owner of publication and allied rights throughout the world. International copyright secured. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America 987654321 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. To our mothers, with love, ]oan Schwartz and Rita Roth, 1g og-1991 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS / ix Introduction: The Spectacle of the Female Head Howard Eilberg-Schwartz / 1 1. "Put a Bag over Her Head": Beheading Mythological Women Wendy Doniger / 15 2. Shaven Heads and Loose Hair: Buddhist Attitudes toward Hair and Sexuality Karen Lang / 32 3. Untangling the Meanings of Hair in Turkish Society Carol Delaney / 53 4. The Gendered Grammar of Ancient Mediterranean Hair Molly Myerowitz Levine / 76 5. Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels: Women's Heads in Early Christianity Mary Rase D'Angelo / 131 6. The Nakedness of a Woman's Voice, the Pleasure in a Man's Mouth: An Oral History of Ancientjudaism Howard Eilberg-Schwartz / 165 7. Making Up a Woman: The Face of Roman Gender Amy Richlin / 185 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS / 215 INDEX / 217
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