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  | | The Hindus(1st Edition) An Alternative History by Wendy Doniger, Paul Mariani Hardcover, 800 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Press Hc, The ISBN-13: 978-1-59420-205-6, ISBN: 1-59420-205-2 "From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its history An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its central texts cannot be ..." |
 | | Gerard Manley Hopkins(1st Edition) A Life by Paul L. Mariani, Wendy Doniger Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2008 by Viking Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-670-02031-7, ISBN: 0-670-02031-1 "HardCover. Pub Date: October 2008 Pages: 496 in Publisher: penguin An insightful and inspirational biography of the heroic and spiritual Statistics poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844a1889) may well have been the most original and innovative poet withwriting in the English language during the nineteenth century. Yet his story of personal struggle. doubt. intense introspection. and inward heroism has never been told fully. As a Jesuit pries ..." |
 | | Critical Terms for the Study of Gender(1st Edition) by Gilbert Herdt, Catharine R. Stimpson, Lauren Berlant, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Deborah Cameron, Janet Carsten, Raewyn W. Connell, Kate Crehan, Wendy Doniger Paperback, 536 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77481-7, ISBN: 0-226-77481-3 "Gender systems pervade and regulate human livesin law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social structures and sources of identity.” So wri ..." |
 | | The Donigers of Great Neck(1st Edition) A Mythologized Memoir (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University) by Wendy Doniger Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2019 by Brandeis University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5126-0352-1, ISBN: 1-5126-0352-X "“Many memories, many myths”―this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents’ origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general―and acknowledging the mythologized narratives that keep bubbling up in those recollections―Doniger tells the story of their childhoods, their unusual marriage, their life in the post–World War II Jewish enclave of Grea ..." |
 | | Purana Perennis Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts by Wendy Doniger 331 Pages, Published by Suny Press ISBN-13: 978-1-4384-0136-2, ISBN: 1-4384-0136-1 "Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts Wendy Doniger. Uttarapurana of Gunabhadra. Sanskrit text and ... Bloomfield, Maurice. The Life and Stories of the Jaina Savior Parcvanatha. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, ..." |
 | | The Donigers of Great Neck(1st Edition) A Mythologized Memoir by Wendy Doniger Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2019 by Brandeis University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5126-0351-4, ISBN: 1-5126-0351-1 "“Many memories, many myths”―this is how Wendy Doniger begins the story of her parents’ origins in Europe and sharply bifurcated life in America. Recalling their contrasting attitudes toward Judaism and religion in general―and acknowledging the mythologized narratives that keep bubbling up in those recollections―Doniger tells the story of their childhoods, their unusual marriage, their life in the post–World War II Jewish enclave of Grea ..." |
 | | Against Dharma Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics (The Terry Lectures Series) by Wendy Doniger Hardcover, 248 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-21619-6, ISBN: 0-300-21619-X "An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of human life: dharma, artha, and kama. Translated, these might be called religion, politics, and pleasure, and each is held to be an essential requirement of a full life. Balance among the three is a goal not always met, however, and dharma ha ..." |
 | | Against Dharma Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics by Wendy Doniger 224 Pages, Published 2018 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23523-4, ISBN: 0-300-23523-2 "“Science Lesson from Gujarat: Stem Cells in Mahabharata, Cars in Veda; Tejomay Bharat Is to Be Distributed along with Eight Books Written by Dina Nath ... Vedic Physics: Toward Unification of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity." |
 | | The Ring of Truth(1st Edition) And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry by Wendy Doniger Hardcover, 424 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-026711-7, ISBN: 0-19-026711-9 "According to north Indian legend, there was once a Shah whose daughter was to marry a minister of the state of Sialkot. When the King heard of the girl's great beauty he tried to seduce her, but failed; he then planted his signet ring in her bed to trick her fiancé into thinking that he'd spoiled her chastity. Years later, the minister learned of the King's trickery, and decided to beg the forgiveness of the woman he had refused to marr ..." |
 | | The Ring of Truth And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry by Wendy Doniger 416 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-026713-1, ISBN: 0-19-026713-5 "Tristan. Bédier, Joseph. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, trans. Hilaire Belloc and Paul Rosenfeld. New York: Pantheon, 1945; Vintage, 1965. Tristan. Béroul, Le Roman de Tristran. The Romance of Tristran, ed. and trans. Norris J. Lacy. ... Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1963. Tristan of Gottfried von Strassburg. Tristan, trans. A. T. Hatto and supplemented with the surviving fragments of the Tristan of Thomas. Harmondsworth: Penguin ..." |
 | | The Ring of Truth And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry by Wendy Doniger 416 Pages, Published 2017 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-026712-4, ISBN: 0-19-026712-7 "IntroductIon 1. Tolkien also wrote, before he ever wrote about a Hobbit, a verse translation of the Völsunga Saga, a great Norse story of women and rings (see chapter 5). J. R. R. Tolkien, and Christopher Tolkien, The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun. 2. Robert Benchley, “Opera Synopses,” 68. chaPter 1 1. Diana Scarisbrick, Rings: Jewelry of Power, Love and Loyalty, 59. 2. Scarisbrick, Rings, 61. 3. John Boswell, Same-Sex Unions in Prem ..." |
 | | Many Visions, Many Versions Art from Indigenous Communities in India by Aurogeeta Das, Wendy Doniger, Frank Korom, Umesh Gaur, B.R. Mani, And David Szanton, David Walker Hardcover, 125 Pages, Published 2017 by International Arts & Artists ISBN-13: 978-0-9883497-6-6, ISBN: 0-9883497-6-0 "An unparalleled opportunity for audiences to view rarely seen contemporary art from four major indigenous artistic traditions in India, Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India showcases works from the Gond and Warli communities of central India, the Mithila region of Bihar, and the narrative scroll painters of West Bengal. The exhibition features 47 exceptional paintings and drawings, selected from private ..." |
 | | Redeeming the Kamasutra(1st Edition) by Wendy Doniger Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2016 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-049928-0, ISBN: 0-19-049928-1 "The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement and inspires magazine articles that offer ..." |
 | | On Hinduism(1st Edition) by Wendy Doniger Paperback, 682 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-045510-1, ISBN: 0-19-045510-1 "In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day. The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinit ..." |
 | | Pluralism and Democracy in India Debating the Hindu Right by Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum 400 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-938092-3, ISBN: 0-19-938092-9 "Parthasarathy calls on the press to return to its true function as democratic watchdog. Antara Dev Sen is a different sort of journalist: the founder (along with her husband, Pratik Kanjilal) of the Little Magazine, a twice-yearly journal of culture and politics that offered, inter alia, sustained analysis of the Gujarat violence. She examines the achievements of India's media by looking at coverage of Hindu-Muslim issues beyond Gu ..." |
 | | Pluralism and Democracy in India Debating the Hindu Right by Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum 400 Pages, Published 2015 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-938093-0, ISBN: 0-19-938093-7 "Very briefly, Hindu gods were used as a means of communicating across markets irretrievably fragmented by ... treated at best as a mute artifact rather than as a reflection of deliberate strategy.3 An important difference of course is that the ... not only experienced directly but multiply mediated through print, film, television, and the built environment, with social and ... to establish a nationalpopular aesthetics that politica ..." |
 | | The Magic Doe Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati: A New Translation by Wendy Doniger, Aditya Behl Doniger Digital, 230 Pages, Published 2014 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-984293-3, ISBN: 0-19-984293-0 "The Hindavī Sufi poets use both these local languages of asceticism and sublimation competitively, to express in an Indian ... Here sata-bhāva, the path of “true feeling,” conceals a clever pun, for sata is also the contraction usual in prefixed ..." |
 | | On Hinduism by Wendy Doniger 672 Pages, Published 2014 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-936009-3, ISBN: 0-19-936009-X "Sinha, Hara Narayana. The Development ofIndian Polity. New York: Asia Pub. House, 1963. Sircar, Dines Chandra. Select Inscriptions. 2nd edition. Calcutta: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1965. ——. Studies in the Society and Administration ofAncient and Medieval India. Calcutta: Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1967. Smith, Brian K. ... Smith, Frederick M. 'Indra Goes West: Report on a Vedic Soma Sacrifice in London in July 1996.' History ofReligi ..." |
 | | Critical Terms for the Study of Gender(1st Edition) by Gilbert Herdt, Catharine R. Stimpson, Lauren Berlant, Judith Butler, Deborah Cameron, Janet Carsten, Kate Crehan, Wendy Doniger, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Carla Freeman Hardcover, 536 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-77480-0, ISBN: 0-226-77480-5 "“Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives―in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social structures and sources of identity.” So write w ..." |
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