Doniger, Wendy, <br/><br/>
The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry / 
Wendy Doniger. 
 - xxi, 397 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Preface: My family jewels and other tall tales -- Introduction: The signifying ring -- Marriage rings (and adultery rings) -- The ring fished from the ocean -- Shakuntala and the ring of memory -- Rings of forgetfulness in medieval European romances -- Siegfried's ring and Wagner's ring -- Pregnant riddles and clever wives -- The rape of the clever wife -- The affair of the diamond necklace -- The slut assumption in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries -- Are diamonds a woman's best friend? -- Two conclusions, on money and myth. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780190267117 (cloth) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2016055313 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Rings--Folklore.<br/>Rings in literature.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GR950.R5  / D66 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>398.28