the denial of women's identity in myth, religion and culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard > (ed.)
- Creator
- Doniger, Wendy > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Richlin, Amy
- Publish Year
- 1995
- Shelfmark
- WER 3 1995 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwbeelden, vrouwenlichamen, religie, cultuur, mythen, historisch, wereld, bundel
- Description
- Description of how women's heads are represented in religions and cultures. The contributors argue that the objectification of women as sexual and reproductive bodies results in their symbolic beheading. They explore how similar treatments of the female head find their 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 symbolic language of women's hair in ancient Greece, 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.