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Hardback. In The Ring of Truth, Wendy Doniger expertly unfolds the cultural and historical significance of rings and other kinds of circular jewelry through timeless stories taken from mythology, religious traditions, and literature. Num Pages: 424 pages, 10 b/w Illus. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRAX; JFCA; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190267117
- ISBN
- 9780190267117
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.34
€ 48.34
Hardback. Series: American Lectures on the History of Religions. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAC; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- Updated with a new Preface
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156417
- ISBN
- 9780231156417
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.76€ 80.20
€ 104.76
€ 80.20
Hardback. Finding in the world's myths-its sacred stories-a way to talk about experiences shared across time and space, Doniger champions the cause of comparative mythology as she expertly taps a wealth of traditions-from the Hebrew Bible to the Bhagavad Gita. Series: American Lectures on the History of Religions. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLB; JFC; JFHF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231111706
- ISBN
- 9780231111706
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 135.87
€ 135.87
Paperback. Finding in the world's myths-its sacred stories-a way to talk about experiences shared across time and space, Doniger champions the cause of comparative mythology as she expertly taps a wealth of traditions-from the Hebrew Bible to the Bhagavad Gita. Series: American Lectures on the History of Religions. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HRA; HRLB; JFC; JFHF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780231111713
- ISBN
- 9780231111713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.45
€ 46.45
Paperback. While focusing on the central problem of evil, the author illuminates every aspect of Hindu thought. She corrects the widespread belief that Hindu thought does not recognize the problem of evil, and shows conclusively that the mythology of tribal societies and the Puranas deal with this question extensively. Series: Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRG; JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 230 x 27. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New e.
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520040984
- ISBN
- 9780520040984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 29.99
€ 41.99
€ 29.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Edition
- University of Chicago Press Ed
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226618579
- ISBN
- 9780226618579
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.89
€ 32.99
€ 25.89
Paperback. A survey of women's experiences in the American communitarian movement from the 19th century to the present. This volume covers a wide range of religious, secular and modern interactive-psychology communities, focusing on women in the complexity and multiplicity of their roles. Editor(s): Chmielewski, W.E.; etc.; Kern, Louis J. (Department of History, Hofstra University, New York, USA); Klee-Hartzell, Marlyn (Department of Political Science, Adelphi University, New York, USA). Series: Utopianism & Communitarianism. Num Pages: 320 pages, 25 illustrations, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HRA; HRLP7; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815625698
- ISBN
- 9780815625698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.86
€ 28.86
Paperback. Explores a lost world of women's dominance. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, facsims. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252066016
- ISBN
- 9780252066016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.35
€ 37.99
€ 34.35
Hardback. Based on extensive sources, including newspapers, trial documents, and local histories, this gripping account of a seemingly typical woman who achieved extraordinary notoriety will appeal to true crime lovers and historians alike. Num Pages: 320 pages, 19, 7 black & white halftones, 12 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BTC; HBJK; JFSJ1; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 27. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421420202
- ISBN
- 9781421420202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 34.69
€ 41.99
€ 34.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV4; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780800725211
- ISBN
- 9780800725211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.27
€ 17.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. This Fourth Edition introduces the sociology of culture and explores cultural phenomena including stories, beliefs, media, ideas, art, religious practices, fashions and rituals from a global-sociological perspective. Series: Sociology for a New Century Series. Num Pages: 232 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC; JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Inc United States
- Edition
- Fourth Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781412990547
- ISBN
- 9781412990547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 75.50
€ 75.50
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857853691
- ISBN
- 9780857853691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.63
€ 40.99
€ 40.63
Hardback. Drawing upon a complex web of early modern sources and ancient texts, this study is a treatment of women, gender and sexuality in 17th-century opera. It explores the operatic manifestations of female chastity, power, transvestism, androgyny and desire. Num Pages: 405 pages, 7 b/w photographs, 4 tables, 45 music examples. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JD; AVGC9; HBT; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 503.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 405
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520209336
- ISBN
- 9780520209336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 84.52€ 64.14
€ 84.52
€ 64.14
Paperback. Scrutinizes spectacular rhetoric, the use of visual images and imagery to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JFFK; JFSJ1; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822349518
- ISBN
- 9780822349518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 34.32
€ 37.99
€ 34.32
Paperback. Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourse of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to spoken stories of mothers and daughters. In this text, she brings Asian American women's experience to the forefront of gender and ethnicity. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503373
- ISBN
- 9780742503373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.99
€ 66.99
Hardback. Unwilling to see Asian American women silenced beneath the noisy discourse of feminists, cultural nationalists, and Eurocentric historians, Wendy Ho turns to spoken stories of mothers and daughters. In this text, she brings Asian American women's experience to the forefront of gender and ethnicity. Series: Critical Perspectives on Asian Pacific Americans. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSJ1; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- AltaMira Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742503366
- ISBN
- 9780742503366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.77
€ 151.77
Paperback. Series: Re:Lit. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HRCV; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Crossway
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781433502095
- ISBN
- 9781433502095
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.41
€ 17.99
€ 16.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFSJ1; VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781254615
- ISBN
- 9781781254615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.57
€ 15.99
€ 11.57
Hardcover. Throughout the 1970s and '80s, women argued that unless they gained access to information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. This book considers the ways in which ordinary women worked to position the female body at the center of women's liberation. Num Pages: 208 pages, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJPL; 3JJPN; JFFK; JFSJ1; VFDW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780226443058
- ISBN
- 9780226443058
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 96.43€ 80.46
€ 96.43
€ 80.46
Paperback. Collection of the best writing from one of the world's most prestigious intellectual journals. Editor(s): Kristianasen, Wendy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNJ; JF; JP; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pluto Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745331874
- ISBN
- 9780745331874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 27.03
€ 40.99
€ 27.03