Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval, and modern India / edited by Mandakranta Bose.
Contributor(s): Bose, Mandakranta
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TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000Description: xxi, 346 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0195122291Subject(s): Women -- India -- History | Women -- India -- Social conditions | Women -- Religious aspects -- IndiaDDC classification: 305.4/0954 LOC classification: HQ1741 | .F33 2000Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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A controversy over a verse on the remarriage of Hindu women / Krishna Datta -- Satī: the event and the ideology / Mandakranta Bose -- Satyavatī: the matriarch of the Mahābhārata / Jayatri Ghosh -- Usable women: the tales of Ambā and Mādhavī / Madhusraba Dasgupta -- Anasūyā: a pativratā with panache / Vidyut Aklujkar -- "The wildering gloom": women's place in Buddhist history / Chapla Verma -- The goddess, women, and their rituals in Hinduism / Samjukta Gombrich Gupta -- The goddess-woman equation in Śākta Tantras / Madhu Khanna -- Women's wealth and worship: female patronage of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie Orr -- The goddess-woman nexus in popular religious practice: the cult of Manasā / Manasi Dasgupta and Mandakranta Bose -- Mīrābai in the academy and the politics of identity / Nancy Martin-Kershaw -- Candrāvati Rāmāyaṇa: feminizing the Rāma-tale / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Women saints in medieval Maharashtra / Eleanor Zelliot -- Powers behind the throne: women in early Mughal politics / Mriducchanda Palit -- For our native sisters: the Wesleyan Ladies' Auxiliary in India / Sarika P. Bose -- Flora Annie Steel: a voice for Indian women? / Karyn Huenemann -- Exploring tradition and change among women in Marathi culture / Suma Chitnis -- The construction of gender in history and religion: the Sikh case / Doris R. Jakobsh -- Postcolonial identity as feminist fantasy: a study of Tamil women's short fiction on dowry / Matilda Gabrielpillai -- Eroticism and the woman writer in Bengali culture / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Women in radical movements in Bengal in the 1940s: the story of the Mahilā Ātmarakṣā Samiti (Women's Self-defense League) / Tripti Chaudhuri -- The feminist movement in West Bengal: from the eighties to the nineties / Maitreyi Chatterjee
Includes bibliographical references and index.