Jewels of Authority
Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-0-19-513478-0 (ISBN)
Description
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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The book is unique in many ways. The scholars are all women, all are experts in Sanskrit or regional languages in India, all are trained in the most modern research methodologies, and all are theoretically astute, with penetrating feminist and critical analysis ... Highly recommended. Choice The singular achievement of this collection - and it is truly groundbreaking - is its focus on quite specific intellectual, spiritual, and ritual contexts in order to examine the status of women in the history of Hinduism. ChoiceMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
565 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-513478-0 (9780195134780)
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Content
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