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Splitting the Difference : Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger (1999, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226156419
ISBN-139780226156415
eBay Product ID (ePID)778637
Product Key Features
Number of Pages383 Pages
Publication NameSplitting the Difference : Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1999
SubjectGender Studies, Folklore & Mythology, Comparative Religion
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science
AuthorWendy Doniger
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.1 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length0.9 in
Item Width0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN98-047996
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal291.1/78343
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Prelude: Comparing Texts Comparing People ONE: The Shadow Sita and the Phantom Helen Sita 9 / Helen 28 / Interlude: Saranyu and the Sun and the Shadow / Comparison: Sita and Helen / Conclusion: Abuse and Flight TWO: Indra and Ahalya, Zeus and Alemena Indra as Guatama with Ahalya / Zeus as Amphitryon with Alcmena / Interlude: Pandora / Comparison: Ahalya and Alcmena / Conclusion: Did She Fall, or Was She Pushed? THREE: Nala and Damayanti, Odysseus and Penelope Sukanya and the Ashvins / Nala and Damayanti / Damayanti and Nala / Penelope / Comparison: Damayanti and Penelope / Interlude: How to Tell a Human from a God / Conclusion: Why Prefer a Human to a God? FOUR: Mariatale/Renuka and Scylla/Charybdis Mariatale/Renuka / Scylla/Charybdis / Interlude: Splitting Lucy / Comparison: Heads You Lose / Conclusion: Put a Bag over Her Head FIVE: Transposed Male Heads and Tales Transposed Male Heads / Splitting Male Androgynes / Interlude: Self-Impregnating Androgynes / Comparison: Victorians and Others / Conclusion: Mind and Body (and Soul) SIX: Bisexual Transformations Males into Females in India / Females into Males in India / Males into Females in Greece and Europe / Conclusion: Male and/or Female Postlude: The Shadow of Gender Notes Bibliography Index
SynopsisHindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In Splitting the Difference, the renowned scholar of mythology Wendy Doniger recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India, with occasional recourse to more recent "double features" from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Face/Off. Myth, Doniger argues, responds to the complexities of the human condition by multiplying or splitting its characters into unequal parts, and these sloughed and cloven selves animate mythology's prodigious plots of sexuality and mortality. Doniger's comparisons show that ultimately differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture; Greek and Indian stories of doubled women resemble each other more than they do tales of doubled men in the same culture. In casting Hindu and Greek mythologies as shadows of each other, Doniger shows that culture is sometimes but the shadow of gender.
LC Classification NumberBL325.S42D65 1999
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