{"product_id":"splitting-the-difference-wendy-doniger-9780226156415","title":"Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eSplitting the Difference, \u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eFace\/Off.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMyth, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Doniger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226156419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226156415\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.09w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/1999 pg. 97","brand":"Wendy Doniger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913423159551,"sku":"9780226156415","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_b482da8e-2ad1-4cd4-b828-673ec3365753.jpg?v=1680620328","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/splitting-the-difference-wendy-doniger-9780226156415","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}