Jewels of authority : women and textual tradition in Hindu India / edited by Laurie L. Patton.

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Patton, Laurie L, 1961-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 228 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780195350647
0195350642
9780195134780
0195134788

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jewels of authority.DDC classification:

305.42/0954 21

LOC classification:

HQ1742 .J48 2002eb

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Contents:

Housemistress at the door / Ellison Banks Findly -- Ritual rights / Mary McGee -- Mantras and miscarriage / Laurie L. Patton -- Giver or given? / Stephanie W. Jamison -- Om, the Vedas, and the status of women with special reference to Śrīvaiṣṇavism / Katherine K. Young -- Casting light on the sounds of the Tamil Veda / Vasudha Narayanan -- By what authority? / Nancy Auer Falk -- Hindu nationalist women / Paola Bacchetta -- Counterpoint authority in women's ritual expressions / Ann Grodzins Gold.

Summary: The essays in this collection address the problem of Hindu women's relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and English. The authors adopt a method of close textual and ethnographic reading, which results in some surprisingly new andsubtle ways of interpreting older, more "classical" discourses, such as Veda and Mimamsa, as well as newer discourses, such as the RSS use of the Devimahatmya.

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The essays in this collection address the problem of Hindu women's relationship to authority, both within and without the textual traditions of Sanskrit, Tamil, Hindi, and English. The authors adopt a method of close textual and ethnographic reading, which results in some surprisingly new andsubtle ways of interpreting older, more "classical" discourses, such as Veda and Mimamsa, as well as newer discourses, such as the RSS use of the Devimahatmya.

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