Jewels of authority : women and textual tradition in Hindu India

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Jewels of authority : women and textual tradition in Hindu India

edited by Laurie L. Patton

Oxford University Press, 2002

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index

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Recent years have seen an explosion in the scholarship on the religious experiences of women. The contributors to this volume believe that more sophisticated studies at higher levels of theoretical analysis are now needed. Their essays involve the close reading of situations in which women are given or denied authority in ritual and interpretive situations. This approach involves not only how women are represented by Indian texts, but several other perspectives: how the particular strategies of debate about women are carried on, how women are depicted as negotiating certain kinds of authority, and how women might resist particular kings of traditional authority in certain colonial and post-colonial situations. Including new work by such scholars as Stephanie Jamison, Vasudha Narayanan, and Ann Grozdins Gold, this collection will set a new benchmark for feminist studies of Hinduism.

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Contributors Abbreviations Laurie L. Patton: Introduction Part II. Ancient Arguments 1: Ellison Banks Findly: The Housemistress at the Door: Vedic and Buddhist Perspectives on the Mendicant Encounter 2: Mary McGee: Ritual Rights: The Gender Implications of Adhik-ara 3: Laurie L. Patton: Mantras and Miscarriage: Controlling Birth in the Late Vedic Period Part II. Classical Arguments 4: Stephanie W. Jamison: Giver or Given? Some Marriages in K-alid-asa 5: Katherine K. Young: Om, the Vedas, and the Status of Women with Special Reference to 'Sr-ivaisnavism 6: Vasudha Narayanan: Casting Light on the Sounds of the Tamil Veda: Tirukk-on-eri D-asyai's "Garland of Words" Part III. Reform and Contemporary Arguments 7: Nancy Auer Falk: By What Authority? Hindu Women and the Legitimization of Reform in the Nineteenth Century 8: Paola Bacchetta: Hindu Nationalist Women: On the Use of the Feminine Symbolic to (Temporarily) Displace Male Authority 9: Ann Grodzins Gold: Counterpoint Authority in Women's Ritual Expressions: A View from the Village Laurie L. Patton: Afterword Bibliography Index

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