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Jewels of authority : women and textual tradition in Hindu India / edited by Laurie L. Patton.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--India--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Dowry.
- History.
- Hinduism--Social aspects.
- Hinduism.
- Hindu women.
- India.
- Social conditions.
- Hindu women--India--History.
- Women--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Women's rights--Religious aspects--Hinduism.
- Women's rights.
- Dowry--India--History.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 228 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-220) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195134788
- OCLC:
- 42764908
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