TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doniger,Wendy
TI  - The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry
SN  - 9780190267117 (cloth)
AV  - GR950.R5 D66 2017
U1  - 398.28 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Rings
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Rings in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -