Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture
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Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture
University of California Press, c1995
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9780520088399
内容説明
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 sexualising 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 eroticisation 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.
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: pbk ISBN 9780520088405
内容説明
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.
目次
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: The Spectacle of the Female Head
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
1. "Put a Bag over Her Head": Beheading Mythological Women
Wendy Doniger
2. Shaven Heads and Loose Hair: Buddhist Attitudes toward Hair and Sexuality
Karen Lang
3. Untangling the Meanings of Hair in Turkish Society
Carol Delaney
4. The Gendered Grammar of Ancient Mediterranean Hair
Molly Myerowitz Levine
5. Veils, Virgins, and the Tongues of Men and Angels: Women's Heads in Early Christianity
Mary Rose D'Angelo
6. The Nakedness of a Woman's Voice, the Pleasure in a Man's Mouth: An Oral History
of Ancient Judaism
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
7. Making Up a Woman: The Face of Roman Gender
Amy Richlin
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
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