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Wendy Doniger

Wendy Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. She is the author of, among other books, Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India and The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was.

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In the LRB archive

The Land East of the Asterisk · 10 April 2008

subscriber-only content Female Bandits? What next! · 22 July 2004

subscriber-only content Lacan’s Ghost · 3 January 2002

  • The Mirror: A History by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet, translated by Katharine Jewett

Mae West and the British Raj · 18 February 1999

  • The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon by W.J.T. Mitchell

What did they name the dog? · 19 March 1998

  • Twins: Genes, Environment and the Mystery of Identity by Lawrence Wright

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Can you spot the source? · 17 February 2000

  • Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

 not available in archive Don’t do it! · 15 October 1998

  • Field of 13 by Dick Francis