Hairpiece
Zoë Heller, 7 March 1996
Off with Her Head! The Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture
edited by Wendy Doniger and Howard Eilberg-Schwartz.
California, 236 pp., £32, October 1995,0 520 08839 5 Show More
edited by Wendy Doniger and Howard Eilberg-Schwartz.
California, 236 pp., £32, October 1995,
“... practices that enact the figurative – and sometimes literal – decapitation of women. As Howard Eilberg-Schwartz, the volume’s co-editor and lone male contributor, puts it in his introduction, ‘if the head is typically thought of as masculine, then what is to be made of the female head? Our contention is that the objectification of woman as ... ”
