Off with Her Head!
Subtitle: The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture
Contributors: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz (Editor); Wendy Doniger (Editor)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 14, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780520088399
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Religion: general; Religious social & pastoral thought & activity; Women's Studies; Women's Studies - General; Social aspects; Anthropology (Specific Aspects); Sociology Of Women; Sociology; Women; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Religion / General; Hair; Head; Identity
First sentence: From ancient myth to contemporary culture, the metaphor of beheading has been used to express the dehumanizing of women.