Images of women in Maharashtrian literature and religion
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Images of women in Maharashtrian literature and religion
State University of New York Press, c1996
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Description
The essays investigate the images of women and femininity found in the traditions of the Marathi language region of India, Maharashtra, and how these images contradict the actualities of women's lives.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I
Images of Women in Contemporary Marathi Literature
Woman and Goddess in the Poetry of P. S. Rege
Philip Engblom
Male Playwrights and Female Characters: Are Marathi Plays about Men or Women?
Mahadev L. Apte
Language and Power in Images of Indian Women
Janet A. Contursi
Stri Dalit Sahitya: The New Voice of Women Poets
Eleanor Zelliot
Part II
Women and Goddesses in Maharashtrian Religion
Sivaji's Mother
James W Laine
All the God's Wives
Günther D. Sontheimer
Goddess as Sister: The Case of Bhivai
Anne Feldhaus
In Quest of Saubhagya : The Roles and Goals of Women as Depicted in Marathi Stories of Votive Devotions
Mary McGee
Sati in the Maratha Country: An Historical Perspective
A. R. Kulkarni
Part III
Images of Women in Old Marathi Literature
Cakradhar and Women
S. G. Tulpule
Janabai and Kanhopatra: A Study of Two Women Sants
Sarah Sellergren
Women Saint-Poets' Conception of Liberation
Tara Bhavalkar
The Concept of Woman in the Poems of Tukaram
Irina Glushkova
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