Oxford University Press

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In this book, noted scholar of Hinduism and mythology Wendy Doniger offers a cross-cultural exploration of the theme of self-impersonation, whose widespread occurrence argues for both its literary power and its human value. The stories she considers range from ancient Indian literature through medieval European courtly literature and Shakespeare to...

Phyllis Trible's    Texts of Terror is a landmark among those studying women of the Bible. Focusing on stories of the maltreatment of women, Trible paved the way for subsequent feminist exegetes who have been very critical of such stories in the Bible, and who see Christianity as an irredeemably patriarchal religion. It is commonly said that these...

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Between the years 1918 and1920, influenza raged around the globe in the worst        pandemic in recorded history, killing at least fifty million people, more than half        a million of them Americans. Yet despite the devastation, this catastrophic event        seems but a forgotten moment in the United States.American Pandemic offers...

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