Name: Off With her Head! (en Inglés)
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Author: Howard Eilbergôçôschwart
ISBN: 9780520088405

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Of California Press

Autor

Howard Eilbergôçôschwart

Año

1995

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

236

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0520088409

ISBN13

9780520088405

N° edición

Categorías

Feministas

Off With her Head! (en Inglés)

Howard Eilbergôçôschwart (Autor) · University Of California Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Off With her Head! (en Inglés)"

Whereas many books look at how women's bodies are represented in different religions and cultures around the world, this work explores the site of a woman's voice and identity, her head. The female head threatens to disrupt the classic gender distinctions that link men to speech, identity, and mind while relegating women to silence, anonymity, and flesh. The contributors to this collection argue that the objectification of women as sexual and reproductive bodies results in their symbolic beheading. Decapitation occurs symbolically in myths as well as in actual practices such as veiling, head covering, and cosmetic highlighting, which by sexualizing a woman's face turns it into an extension of her body.The essays explore how similar treatments of the female head find their unique articulation in diverse religious traditions and cultures: in Hindu myths of beheading, in Buddhist and Tantric practices and poetry about the hair of female nuns, in the resistance to veiling by early Christian women at Corinth, in contemporary veiling practices in a Turkish village, in the eroticization of the female mouth in ancient Judaism, and in Greek and Roman cosmetic practices.Together these essays show how the depiction of the female head is critical for an understanding of gender and its influence on other fundamental religious and cultural issues.