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Wendy Doniger

Splitting the Difference

Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India

Wendy Doniger

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English
University of Chicago Press
15 April 1999
Hinduism; Cultural studies; Folklore, myths & legends; Gender studies, gender groups
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.
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Imprint:   University of Chicago Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Edition:   2nd ed.
Dimensions:   Height: 23mm,  Width: 15mm,  Spine: 2mm
Weight:   595g
ISBN:   9780226156415
ISBN 10:   0226156419
Pages:   383
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  A / AS level ,  Further / Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School and a professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

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