Jewels of authority
Subtitle: women and textual tradition in Hindu India
By: edited by Laurie L. Patton.
Contributors: Patton, Laurie L., 1961-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Women -- India -- Social conditions; Hindu women -- India -- History; Women -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Hinduism -- Social aspects; Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Hinduism; Dowry -- India -- History
Description: "In recent years, scholarship on the religious experiences of women has flourished. In the study of Hinduism much of this work has been at a fairly general level, exploring such basic issues as power relations between the sexes, the codification of gender behavior, and contest over gender behavior. The essays in this volume seek to introduce a higher level of theoretical analysis by means of close readings of situations in which women are given or denied authority in ritual and interpretive contexts. This approach encompasses not only how women are represented, but also particular strategies of debate about women, how women are depicted as negotiating certain kinds of authority, and how women might resist traditional authority in specific colonial and post colonial situations."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: Housemistress at the door -- Ellison Banks Findly; title: Ritual rights -- Mary McGee; title: Mantras and miscarriage -- Laurie L. Patton; title: Giver or given? -- Stephanie W. Jamison; title: Om, the Vedas, and the status of women with special reference to Śrīvaiṣṇavism -- Katherine K. Young; title: Casting light on the sounds of the Tamil Veda -- Vasudha Narayanan; title: By what authority? -- Nancy Auer Falk; title: Hindu nationalist women -- Paola Bacchetta; title: Counterpoint authority in women's ritual expressions-- Ann Grodzins Gold.