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Jewels of authority

Name: Jewels of authority
Author: Laurie L. Patton

Laurie L. Patton

01 January 2002

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Book Synopsis

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.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780195134780
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, (01 January 2002)
Number of Pages: 228
Weight: 1.23 grams
Language: English
Dimensions: 9.52 x 6.62 x 29 mm
Categories:: Hinduism