| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 226 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. The spectacle of the female head / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- "Put a bag over her head" : beheading mythological women / Wendy Doniger -- Shaven heads and loose hair : Buddhist attitudes toward hair and sexuality / Karen Lang -- Untangling the meanings of hair in Turkish society / Carol Delaney -- Gendered grammar of ancient Mediterranean hair / Molly Myerowitz Levine -- Veils, virgins, and the tongues of men and angels : women's heads in early Christianity / Mary Rose D'Angelo. |
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Nakedness of a woman's voice, the pleasure in a man's mouth : an oral history of ancient Judaism / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- Making up a woman : the face of Roman gender / Amy Richlin. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Head -- Social aspects.
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Head -- Social aspects. |
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Head. |
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Women -- Identity.
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Women -- Identity. |
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Hair -- Social aspects.
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Hair -- Social aspects. |
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Hair. |
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Psychoanalysis.
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Psychoanalysis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Women. |
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Womyn. |
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Hair. |
| Added Author |
Eilberg-Schwartz, Howard, 1956-
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Doniger, Wendy.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Off with her head!. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995 0520088395 (DLC) 95013310 (OCoLC)32274972 |
| ISBN |
9780520915312 (electronic book) |
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0520915313 (electronic book) |
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0585139725 (electronic book) |
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9780585139722 (electronic book) |
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0520088395 |
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0520088409 |
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