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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation
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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation Hardcover - 2004 - 1st Edition

by Doniger, Wendy

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Oxford University Press, 2004-11-18. Hardcover. Good. Signed by Author. Good in Good DJ. Light shelf wear to boards/DJ; Association copy: signed and inscribed by author to Mary Hanna on dedication page: "For Mary Hanna with best wishes from Wendy Doniger Walla Walla March 3, 2005". "Mary Hanna, retired politics professor at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA, taught from 1983 until retiring in 2000.
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  • Title The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation
  • Author Doniger, Wendy
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Oxford, U.K
  • Date 2004-11-18
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SKU1000483
  • ISBN 9780195160161 / 0195160169
  • Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.46 x 0.88 in (24.13 x 16.41 x 2.24 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Sex & Gender: Lesbian
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Self in literature, Impersonation in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004004039
  • Dewey Decimal Code 809.933

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The people in these stories set out to become other people but, through a kind of triple cross or double back, end up as themselves after all, masquerading as other people who turn out to be masquerading as them.

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  • Library Journal, 12/27/2004, Page 0

About the author

Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, where she has taught since 1978. She has written extensively about Hindu and cross-cultural mythology, particularly about issues of illusion, animals, gender, and sex. Her most recent books are The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (2000) and a translation (with Sudhir Kakar) of the Kamasutra (OUP, 2002).

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