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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226156419
ISBN-13
9780226156415
eBay Product ID (ePID)
778637
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
383 Pages
Publication Name
Splitting the Difference : Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Subject
Gender Studies, Folklore & Mythology, Comparative Religion
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
18.1 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
98-047996
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
291.1/78343
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments 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
Synopsis
Hindu 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 Number
BL325.S42D65 1999
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