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[O'FLAHERTY, Wendy Doniger] Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts (1980)
[O'FLAHERTY, Wendy Doniger] Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts (1980)
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 382 pp. Grey cloth with red mettallic titles to spine. Black and white photos. A bit of rubbing to dust jacket spine, else a near fine copy in like dust jacket.
A scholarly work studying sexual metaphors and animal symbolism used in Indian mythology to express religious concepts about the relationships between men and women, gods and goddesses, humans and deities, and more. The first chapter details the use of sexual fluids in Vedic and post-Vedic India.

