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The ring of truth : and other myths of sex and jewelry / Wendy Doniger

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Doniger, Wendy
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings) -- Rings in History -- The Meaning of Rings -- The Signet Ring -- The Ring on Her Finger -- The Sexual Ring -- Hans Carvel's Ring -- The Vagina Monologues -- The Rings of Wives and Courtesans -- 2.The Ring Fished from the Ocean -- The Story in the Fish -- Solomon's Ring -- Polycrates's Ring -- The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon -- The (Not-So-) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter -- The Child and the Ring in the Water -- The Family Romance -- The Pope's Ring and the Fish -- Rings of Incest -- Cinderella's Ring -- Cinderella's Fish -- Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child -- The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News -- The Token Rings of Lost Children -- 3.Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory -- Rings in Ancient India -- Sita's Jewels -- Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace -- The Rejection of Shakuntala -- The Ring of the Bodhisattva -- The Recognition of Shakuntala -- The Return of the Repressed -- The Lost and Found of Rings -- 4.Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances -- The Man Who Forgot His Wife When He Lost His Ring -- Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain -- Lancelot and Guinevere -- Tristan and Isolde -- The Ring on the Statue -- Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring -- 5.Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring -- Siegfried and Brunnhilde -- The Man Who Lost His Ring When He Forgot His Wife -- The Twilight of the Ring -- Wieland the Smith -- The Rehabilitation of Cads -- The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin -- 6.Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives -- The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with His Wife Until She Had Borne Him a Son -- Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter -- Other Indian Variants -- Tamar and Judah -- The Clever Wife in the Decameron -- Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring -- Is All Well That Ends Well? -- 7.The Rape of the Clever Wife -- Rape and Rejection -- Menander and Terence -- The Dream Ring -- How Budur Almost Raped Her Husband Qamar -- The Vizier's Daughter -- Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers -- 8.The Affair of the Diamond Necklace -- Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower -- The Official Trial -- Trial by Libel -- Alexandre Dumas -- Fact and Fiction -- Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro -- The Ghosts of Versailles -- Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace -- 9.The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries -- Chains in Mansfield Park -- Jewry and Jewelry in Daniel Deronda -- Guy de Maupassant and Henry James -- W. Somerset Maugham and China Seas -- Twentieth-Century Films -- Real Jewelry and False Women -- 10.Are Diamonds a Woman's Best Friend? -- The Symbolic Baggage of Baguettes -- Who Said, "Forever"? Anita Loos, Leo Robin, De Beers, and N. W. Ayer -- The Divorce Ring and the Apology Ring -- The Anti-Myth: Diabolical Diamonds -- Take Back Your Ring: The Legal View -- Hard Values -- The Rebellion of Twenty-First-Century Women -- The Ties That Bind -- 11.Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth -- I Money: The Lap of Luxury -- II Myth: Recognition, Rings, Reason and Rationality -- The Ring to the Rescue -- Sexing Texts -- Reason and Rationality -- The Ring Runs Rings around Reason.
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.
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ISBN
9780190621759 (ebook)
Audience Notes
Specialized.
Note
Previously issued in print: 2017.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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