Gender and narrative in the Mahabharata
By: edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.
Contributors: Brodbeck, Simon, 1970-; Black, Brian, 1970-
Series: Routledge Hindu studies series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415415408
Subjects: Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Gender identity in literature
Notes: Listen but do not grieve : grief, paternity, and time in the laments of Dhrtarastra / Emily T. Hudson -- Eavesdropping on the Epic : female listeners in the Mahabharata / Brian Black -- Arguments of a queen : Draupadi's views on kingship / Angelika Malinar -- How do you conduct yourself? : gender and the construction of a dialogical self in the Mahabharata / Laurie L. Patton -- Among friends : marriage, women, and some little birds / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Gendered soteriology : marriage and the karmayoga / Simon Brodbeck -- Bhisma as matchmaker / Nick Allen -- Bhisma beyond Freud : Bhisma in the Mahabharata / James L. Fitzgerald -- "Show you are a man!" : transsexuality and gender bending in the characters of Arjuna/Brhannada and Amba/Sikhandin(i) / Andrea Custodi -- Krsna's son Samba : faked gender and other ambiguities on the background of lunar and solar myth / Georg von Simson -- Paradigms of the good in the Mahabharata : Suka and Sulabha in quagmires of ethics / Arti Dhand.

Includes bibliographical references and index.