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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Doniger, Wendy, author.     Subjects     Rings -- Folklore     Rings in literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Doniger, Wendy, author.       by title:      The ring of truth an...         MARC Display

The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry / Wendy Doniger. by Doniger, Wendy, author. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, c2017. Subjects Rings -- Folklore   Rings in literature. ISBN:  9780190267117 (hardcover) : 0190267119 (hardcover) Description:  xxi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents:  Marriage rings (and adultery rings) -- The ring fished from the ocean -- Shakuntala and the ring of memory -- Rings of forgetfulness in medieval European romances -- Siegfried's ring and Wagner's ring -- Pregnant riddles and clever wives -- The rape of the clever wife -- The affair of the diamond necklace -- The slut assumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Are diamonds a woman's best friend? -- Two conclusions, on money and myth. Requests:  0 Summary:  In 'The Ring of Truth', Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry through timeless stories taken from mythology, religious traditions, and literature.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 398.28 Do Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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