Wendy Doniger

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Wendy Doniger is affiliated with the following schools: University of Chicago, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Radcliffe College

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According to Wikipedia, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty is an American Indologist whose professional career has spanned five decades. A scholar of Sanskrit and Indian textual traditions, her major works include, 'The Hindus: an alternative history'; Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva; Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook; The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology; Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts; and The Rig Veda: An Anthology, 108 Hymns Translated from the Sanskrit. She is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of History of Religions at the University of Chicago, and has taught there since 1978. She served as president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1998.

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Wendy Doniger's Published Works

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Published Papers

The Hindus: An Alternative History (2009) (167)
Off with her head! : the denial of women's identity in myth, religion, and culture (1997) (102)
Death, war, and sacrifice : studies in ideology and practice (1993) (64)
Sacrifice and Substitution : Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification (1989) (43)
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India (1999) (42)
The Bedtrick: Tales of Sex and Masquerade (2000) (41)
The Concept of Duty in South Asia (1980) (35)
Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545 (2012) (29)
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions: The Contested Legacies of Joachim Wach and Mircea Eliade (2010) (19)
Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes (1988) (19)
Britannica encyclopedia of world religions (2006) (15)
POST-MODERN AND -COLONIAL-STRUCTURAL COMPARISONS (2000) (13)
Western Dreams about Eastern Dreams (2001) (12)
Why study dreams? A religious studies perspective. (1993) (11)
God’s Body, or, The Lingam Made Flesh: Conflicts over the Representation of the Sexual Body of the Hindu God Shiva (2014) (10)
Presidential Address: “I Have Scinde”: Flogging a Dead (White Male Orientalist) Horse (1999) (10)
Claude Lévi-Strauss’s theoretical and actual approaches to myth (2009) (9)
From Kama to Karma: The Resurgence of Puritanism in Contemporary India (2014) (8)
The Magic Doe: Qutban Suhravardi's Mirigavati (2012) (8)
The Mythology of Masquerading Animals, or, Bestiality (2004) (8)
Misconceptions : Female imaginations and male fantasies in parental imprinting (1998) (8)
Hermeneutics, Politics, and the History of Religions (2010) (7)
Purana Perennis: Reciprocity and Transformation in Hindu and Jaina Texts (1993) (6)
Sita and Helen, Ahalya and Alcmena: A Comparative Study (1997) (6)
The economics of ecstasy (2001) (6)
Zoomorphism in Ancient India: Humans More Bestial than the Beasts 1 (2014) (6)
Rationalizing the Irrational Other: "Orientalism" and the Laws of Manu (1992) (6)
Many masks, many selves (2006) (6)
Reading the “Kamasutra”: the strange & the familiar (2007) (5)
Myths and Methods in the Dark (1996) (5)
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit (2004) (5)
Eating karma in classical South Asian texts (1999) (5)
Hinduism by Any Other Name (2016) (4)
Why Should a Priest Tell You Whom to Marry? A Deconstruction of the Laws of Manu (1991) (4)
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry (2017) (4)
A burnt offering (2002) (4)
Speaking in Tongues: Deceptive Stories about Sexual Deception (1994) (3)
An Alternative Historiography for Hinduism (2009) (3)
Dogs as Dalits in Indian Literature 1 (2009) (3)
5.The King and the Corpse and the Rabbi and the Talk-Show Star Zimmer's Legacy to Mythologists and Indologists (1994) (2)
Saranyu/Samjna: The Sun and the Shadow 1 (2014) (2)
Rings of Rejection and Recognition in Ancient India (1998) (2)
Perspectives: What Is Myth? (1998) (2)
The Symbolism of Black and White Babies in the Myth of Parental Impression (2015) (2)
Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations (2016) (2)
The mythology of the face lift. (2000) (2)
Sikh Studies- Comparative Perspectives on a Changing Tradition (1979) (2)
What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History (2016) (2)
On Translating the Kamasutra: A Gurudakshina for Daniel H. H. Ingalls (2001) (1)
Roundtable on Outrage, Scholarship, and the Law in India A Response (2016) (1)
Bisexuality in the Mythology of Ancient India (2005) (1)
The Control of Addiction in Ancient India 1 (2014) (1)
Sex, lies, and tall tales (1996) (1)
Structuralist Universals versus Psychoanalytic Universals (1989) (1)
When a Lingam is Just a Good Cigar: Psychoanalysis and Hindu Sexual Fantasies (2018) (1)
The Fight for the History of Hinduism in the Academy (2015) (1)
Logos and Mythos: A Response to Walter Burkert (1999) (1)
Forgetting and Re-Awakening to Incarnation 1 (2014) (0)
Winged Stallions and Wicked Mares (0)
Myths as Metaphors for Radical Evil (2007) (0)
The Submarine Mare in the Mythology of Shiva 1 (2014) (0)
The origin of heresy in Hindu mythology (1973) (0)
Shakuntala and the Ring of Memory (2017) (0)
The Ring Fished from the Ocean (2017) (0)
You Can't Make an Omelette 1 (2014) (0)
Women in the Mahabharata 1 (2014) (0)
Eating Karma 1 (2014) (0)
Pregnant Riddles and Clever Wives (2017) (0)
The Slut Assumption in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (2017) (0)
The History of Ekalavya 1 (2014) (0)
Transsexual Transformations of Subjectivity and Memory in Hindu Mythology 1 (2014) (0)
Assume the Position: The Fight Over the Body of Yoga 1 (2014) (0)
Sacred Cows and Beefeaters 1 (2014) (0)
Saguna and Nirguna Images of the Deity 1 (2014) (0)
Siegfried’s Ring and Wagner’s Ring (2017) (0)
The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana 1 (2014) (0)
The Mythology of Horses in India 1 (2014) (0)
The Oldest Deception (2001) (0)
The Forest-Dweller 1 (2014) (0)
Against Dharma (2019) (0)
The Rape of the Clever Wife (2017) (0)
Barbara Stoler Miller (1940–1993) (1993) (0)
The Anthropologist and the Native: The Mythology of the Kāmasūtra (2011) (0)
The Politics of Hinduism Tomorrow 1 (2014) (0)
Doniger O'flaherty on Doniger (2014) (0)
Juliane Schober BUDDHIST JUST RULE AND BURMESE NATIONAL CULTURE: STATE PATRONAGE OF THE CHINESE TOOTH (2008) (0)
Corinne G. Dempsey Bringing the Sacred Down to Earth: Adventures in Comparative Religion (2014) (0)
Modi's visit to silicon valley (2015) (0)
11 Report of the Committee on Crime Prevention and Security on Campus and in the Neighborhood 11 Report of the Student Ombudsperson for Winter and Spring Quarters 1995 — (2001) (0)
Medical and Mythical Constructions of the Body in Sanskrit Texts 1 (2014) (0)
The Toleration of Intolerance in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
Marriage Rings (and Adultery Rings) (2017) (0)
Bisexuality and Transsexuality among the Hindu Gods 1 (2014) (0)
After the War (2022) (0)
The Donigers of Great Neck (2019) (0)
Kenan Malik: Pandaemonium: fear and free speech (2014) (0)
Book Review Reading Buddhist Sanskrit Texts: An Elementary Grammatical Guide. By K.L. Dhammajoti. Hong Kong: Buddha-dharma Centre of Hong Kong (2013) (0)
Are Diamonds a Woman’s Best Friend? (2017) (0)
Impermanence and Eternity in Hindu Epic, Art and Performance 1 (2014) (0)
Babies in the Myth (2016) (0)
Why God changed his mind about Isaac (1993) (0)
What reason promises (2016) (0)
Austin Beta-Gamma Hand and Foot Checker Test Reports (1949) (0)
Three (or more) Forms of the Three (or more)–Fold Path in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
From Great Neck to Swift Hall: Confessions of a Reluctant Historian of Religions (2000) (0)
Curriculum Vitae of Lorraine Daston (2016) (0)
review at William Dalrymple, Nine Lives. In search of the sacred in modern India (2011) (0)
My Life in Wonderland: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Lewis Carroll (2022) (0)
You can'T get here from there: The Logical Paradox of Hindu Creation Myths 1 (2014) (0)
Index of Authors and Subjects (1980) (0)
The Ambivalence of Ahimsa 1 (2014) (0)
The Concept of Heresy in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
Chapter 2. Jewels of Recognition and Paternity in Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu Traditions (2021) (0)
Myth, Reason, and Rationality (2016) (0)
Gods as Difficult Guests in Greek and Indian Mythology (2022) (0)
How the Arthashastra and the Kamasutra Got Away with Their Critiques of Dharma (2018) (0)
Are Hindus Monotheists or Polytheists? 1 (2014) (0)
Menander, Terence and the rape of the clever wife (2018) (0)
An open letter in support of Jason Rezaian (2015) (0)
Wrecked Cityscapes and Aesthetic Improvement: Discreet Charms of a Globalizing Metropolis. Tales from Mumbai: Implementing Pluralism and Democracy (2015) (0)
Two Conclusions, on Money and Myth (2017) (0)
The Mythology of the Kamasutra 1 (2014) (0)
Jewels of Recognition and Paternity in Buddhist, Jain, and Hindu Traditions (2021) (0)
God's Body, or, the Lingam made Flesh: Conflicts Over the Representation of Shiva 1 (2014) (0)
Intimations of Mortality: Dreams of a Buddhist Anthropologist (2014) (0)
Together Apart: Changing Ethical Implications of Hindu Cosmologies 1 (2014) (0)
Rings of Forgetfulness in Medieval European Romances (2017) (0)
Reading the Kamasutra: It Isn't all about Sex 1 (2014) (0)
Death and Rebirthin Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
Invisibility and Sexual Violence in Indo-European Mythology (2017) (0)
Shadows of the Ramayana 1 (2014) (0)
Can Memory Fill In Gaps of Memory? Applications of the Cognitive Science of Religion to the History of Religions (2016) (0)
‘I Have Scinde’: Orientalism and Guilt 1 (2014) (0)
The Clever Wife in Indian Mythology 1 (2014) (0)
Afterword Cruelty and the Imagination of Animals in India (2015) (0)
Joseph Mitsuo Kitagawa (1915-1992) (1993) (0)
The Third Nature : Gender Inversions in the Kamasutra 1 (2014) (0)
The Affair of the Diamond Necklace (2017) (0)
Sacrifice and Substitution: Ritual Mystification and Mythical Demystification in Hinduism 1 (2014) (0)
Upanisads . The World's Classics. Translated by Patrick Olivelle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. lx, 446 pp. $6.95 (paper). (1997) (0)
Going with the Flow (2004) (0)
Chapter Four. You Can’t Get Here From There: The Logical Paradox Of Ancient Indian Creation Myths (2007) (0)
Indra as the Stallion's Wife 1 (2014) (0)

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