Hairpiece
Zoë Heller, 7 March 1996
Off with Her Head! The Denial of Women’s Identity in Myth, Religion and Culture
edited by Wendy Doniger and Howard Eilberg-Schwartz.
California, 236 pp., £32, October 1995,0 520 08839 5 Show More
edited by Wendy Doniger and Howard Eilberg-Schwartz.
California, 236 pp., £32, October 1995,
“... has been remarked by feminists studying women’s relation to their own bodies,’ notes Amy Richlin in ‘Making up a Woman’, an essay about ancient Roman cosmetics, ‘women’s choice to beautify themselves is particularly problematic, peculiarly self-deconstructing, since this focus on the surface calls into question the existence of any ... ”