The ring of truth and other myths of sex and jewelry / Wendy Doniger.

New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

xxi, 397 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-378) 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.