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The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
By Doniger, Wendy
- ISBN
- 9780190267117
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Reviewed on March 1, 2017 | Arts and Humanities
Doniger (Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, Univ. of Chicago; Redeeming the Kamasutra) follows the circular link connecting sex, money, and jewelry in this collection of mythology about rings. There are no Tolkien-esque magic rings in these stories, as Doniger points out in the introduction, but the rings in question possess a different kind of power: namely, the power to represent cultural assumptions about gender and sexuality...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
