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Hindu and Greek mythologies teem with stories of women and men who are doubled, who double themselves, who are seduced by gods doubling as mortals, whose bodies are split or divided. In Splitting the Difference, the renowned scholar of mythology Wendy Doniger recounts and compares a vast range of these tales from ancient Greece and India, with occasional recourse to more recent "double features" from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to Face/Off.

Myth, Doniger argues, responds to the complexities of the human condition by multiplying or splitting its characters into unequal parts, and these sloughed and cloven selves animate mythology's prodigious plots of sexuality and mortality. Doniger's comparisons show that ultimately differences in gender are more significant than differences in culture; Greek and Indian stories of doubled women resemble each other more than they do tales of doubled men in the same culture. In casting Hindu and Greek mythologies as shadows of each other, Doniger shows that culture is sometimes but the shadow of gender.

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  • Title Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
  • Author Wendy Doniger
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 383
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 1999-04-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780226156415 / 0226156419
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.04 x 6.09 x 0.84 in (22.96 x 15.47 x 2.13 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
    • Cultural Region: Indian
    • Ethnic Orientation: Indian
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Religion - World Religions
  • Library of Congress subjects Mythology, Greek, Sex - Mythology
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98-47996
  • Dewey Decimal Code 291.178

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  • Library Journal, 07/01/1999, Page 97
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