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9780195134780

Jewels of Authority Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India

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    9780195134780

  • ISBN10:

    0195134788

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-01-31
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

The essays in this collection address the problem of Hindu women's relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and English. The authors adopt a method of close textual and ethnographic reading, which results in some surprisingly new and subtle ways of interpreting older, more "classical" discourses, such as Veda and Mimamsa, as well as newer discourses, such as the RSS use of the Devimahatmya.

Table of Contents

Contributors xvii
Abbreviations xxi
Introduction 3(10)
Laurie L. Patton
PART I ANCIENT ARGUMENTS
The Housemistress at the Door: Vedic and Buddhist Perspectives on the Mendicant Encounter
13(19)
Ellison Banks Findly
Ritual Rights: The Gender Implications of Adhikara
32(19)
Mary McGee
Mantras and Miscarriage: Controlling Birth in the Late Vedic Period
51(18)
Laurie L. Patton
PART II CLASSICAL ARGUMENTS
Giver or Given? Some Marriages in Kalidasa
69(15)
Stephanie W. Jamison
Om, the Vedas, and the Status of Women with Special Reference to Srivaisnavism
84(38)
Katherine K. Young
Casting Light on the Sounds of the Tamil Veda: Tirukkoneri Dasyai's ``Garland of Words''
122(17)
Vasudha Narayanan
PART III REFORM AND CONTEMPORARY ARGUMENTS
By What Authority? Hindu Women and the Legitimization of Reform in the Nineteenth Century
139(18)
Nancy Auer Falk
Hindu Nationalist Women: On the Use of the Feminine Symbolic to (Temporarily) Displace Male Authority
157(20)
Paola Bacchetta
Counterpoint Authority in Women's Ritual Expressions: A View from the Village
177(26)
Ann Grodzins Gold
Afterword 203(4)
Laurie L. Patton
Bibliography 207(14)
Index 221

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