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The connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles' birth - and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. With various symbolic associations between weasels and women, the author brings to life one of the most enduring myths of Western culture.

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    A Hardback by Maurizio Bettini, Emlyn Eisenach

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/08/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226044743, 978-0226044743
      ISBN10: 0226044742
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      Gender studies: women and girls

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      Book Synopsis
      The connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles' birth - and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. With various symbolic associations between weasels and women, the author brings to life one of the most enduring myths of Western culture.

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