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100	1		_aDoniger, Wendy, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry / _cWendy Doniger.
264		1	_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2017.
300			_axxi, 397 pages ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aMachine generated contents note: 1.Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings) Rings in History The Meaning of Rings The Signet Ring The Ring on Her Finger The Sexual Ring Hans Carvel's Ring The Vagina Monologues The Rings of Wives and Courtesans 2.The Ring Fished from the Ocean The Story in the Fish Solomon's Ring Polycrates's Ring The Bishop of Glasgow's Salmon The (Not-So-) Fortunate Farmer's Daughter The Child and the Ring in the Water The Family Romance The Pope's Ring and the Fish Rings of Incest Cinderella's Ring Cinderella's Fish Shakespeare's Rings I: The Lost Child The Ring (and Child) in the Fish in the News The Token Rings of Lost Children 3.Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory Rings in Ancient India Sita's Jewels Ratnavali, the Lady with the Necklace The Rejection of Shakuntala The Ring of the Bodhisattva The Recognition of Shakuntala The Return of the Repressed Contents note continued: The Lost and Found of Rings 4.Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances The Man Who Forgot His Wife When He Lost His Ring Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, and the Lady of the Fountain Lancelot and Guinevere Tristan and Isolde The Ring on the Statue Shakespeare's Rings II: The Lying Ring 5.Siegfried's Ring and Wagner's Ring Siegfried and Brunnhilde The Man Who Lost His Ring When He Forgot His Wife The Twilight of the Ring Wieland the Smith The Rehabilitation of Cads The Alibi Ring: Oxytocin 6.Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives The Man Who Wouldn't Sleep with His Wife Until She Had Borne Him a Son Muladeva and the Brahmin's Daughter Other Indian Variants Tamar and Judah The Clever Wife in the Decameron Shakespeare's Rings III: The Riddle of the Ring Is All Well That Ends Well? 7.The Rape of the Clever Wife Rape and Rejection Menander and Terence The Dream Ring Contents note continued: How Budur Almost Raped Her Husband Qamar The Vizier's Daughter Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers 8.The Affair of the Diamond Necklace Marie Antoinette and the Scene in the Bower The Official Trial Trial by Libel Alexandre Dumas Fact and Fiction Beaumarchais and The Marriage of Figaro The Ghosts of Versailles Asimov's Norby and the Queen's Necklace 9.The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Chains in Mansfield Park Jewry and Jewelry in Daniel Deronda Guy de Maupassant and Henry James W. Somerset Maugham and China Seas Twentieth-Century Films Real Jewelry and False Women 10.Are Diamonds a Woman's Best Friend? The Symbolic Baggage of Baguettes Who Said, "Forever"? Anita Loos, Leo Robin, De Beers, and N. W. Ayer The Divorce Ring and the Apology Ring The Anti-Myth: Diabolical Diamonds Take Back Your Ring: The Legal View Hard Values Contents note continued: The Rebellion of Twenty-First-Century Women The Ties That Bind 11.Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth I Money: The Lap of Luxury II Myth: Recognition, Rings, Reason and Rationality The Ring to the Rescue Sexing Texts Reason and Rationality The Ring Runs Rings around Reason.
520			_a According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her, but failed; he then planted his signet ring in her bed to trick her fiance into thinking that he'd spoiled her chastity. Years later, the minister learned of the King's trickery, and decided to beg the forgiveness of the woman he had refused to marry-however, on his way to see her he fell dead. The Shah's daughter found out about his death, and her own vindication in his eyes, and went to lie with him on his funeral pyre-the site of their cremation is now a temple where the goddess Shila Mata is worshipped. 0The themes of this story-the spiteful king, the innocent woman, trickery, adultery (in this case presumed), and, above all, the ring symbolizing a sexual encounter-reverberate across time and cultures, so much so that you might think you've heard this story before, even if you've never heard of the goddess whose origin it describes. Why are sex and jewelry, particularly rings, so often connected?0Why do rings keep appearing in stories about marriage and adultery, love and betrayal, loss and recovery, identity and masquerade? What is the mythology that makes finger rings symbols of true (or, as the case may be, untrue) love? In seeking answers to these questions, each chapter of this book, like a separate charm on a charm bracelet, considers a different constellation of stories.
650		0	_aRings _vFolklore.
650		0	_aRings in literature.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aDoniger, Wendy, author. _tRing of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry _dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2017 _z9780190267124 _w(DLC) 2017007846
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