Jewels of Authority

Reviews / Votes

"The essays collected in this work succeed marvelously in demonstrating that the relationship between women's authority and traditional Brahmanical Hinduism is dynamic, multifaceted, contextually based, and continually under debate."- The Journal of the American Academy of Religion "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... 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."-Choice