Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage
Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage

Author: Arti Dhand

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2009-01-01

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 0791479889

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The Hindu tradition has held conflicting views on womanhood from its earliest texts—holding women aloft as goddesses to be worshipped on the one hand and remaining deeply suspicious about women's sexuality on the other. In Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage, Arti Dhand examines the religious premises upon which Hindu ideas of sexuality and women are constructed. The work focuses on the great Hindu epic, the Mahābhārata, a text that not only reflects the cogitations of a momentous period in Hindu history, but also was critical in shaping the future of Hinduism. Dhand proposes that the epic's understanding of womanhood cannot be isolated from the broader religious questions that were debated at the time, and that the formation of a sexual ideology is one element in crafting a coherent religious framework for Hinduism.

Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women
Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women

Author: Julia Leslie

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9788120810365

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The considerable interest currently being expressed in women and religion has thrown down an important challenge; the need to see women not merely as the passive victims of an oppressive ideology but also perhaps primarily as the active agents of their own positive constructs. This book therefore aims to fill a notable gap in the literature. Twelve contributors study the role of women in Hindu religion by examining textual studies of the part played by women in a variety of religion rituals, both past and present, by exploring the socio-religious context of their various communites; and by using specialist material to draw on cross-cultural conclusions.

The Perfect Wife (Stridharmapaddhati)
The Perfect Wife (Stridharmapaddhati)

Author: Tryambakayajvan

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780140435986

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Tryambakayajvan Is Almost Certainly The Famous Tryambakarayamakhin (Ad 1665-1750), Minister To Two Of The Maratha Kings Of Thanjavur (Sahaji And Serfoji). Famous In His Own Right As A Scholar Of Religious Law, He Is Described In A Contemporary Text As A Learned Minister, The Performer Of Vedic Sacrifices, And A Patron Of Scholars. In The Stridharmapaddhati, Tryambaka Summarizes For His Eighteenth-Century Audience A Tradition That Was Then Already Over A Thousand Years Old. The Treatise Advocates Conformity And Tryambaka Is Interested In Women Not As Individuals But As Parts That Fit Into And Strengthen The Whole. That Whole, For Him, Is Dharma. The Work Is, In Itself, An Admission Of The Power Of Non-Conformist Women To Wreck The Entire Edifice Of Hindu Society. For, When Women Are 'Corrupted', All Is Lost. Translated From The Sanskrit By I. Julia Leslie

Woman, Culture, and Society
Woman, Culture, and Society

Author: Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780804708517

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Female anthropologists scan patterns and changes in women's roles in various social systems

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies
The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies

Author: Chris Bobel

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-07-24

Total Pages: 1041

ISBN-13: 9811506140

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This open access handbook, the first of its kind, provides a comprehensive and carefully curated multidisciplinary and genre-spanning view of the state of the field of Critical Menstruation Studies, opening up new directions in research and advocacy. It is animated by the central question: ‘“what new lines of inquiry are possible when we center our attention on menstrual health and politics across the life course?” The chapters—diverse in content, form and perspective—establish Critical Menstruation Studies as a potent lens that reveals, complicates and unpacks inequalities across biological, social, cultural and historical dimensions. This handbook is an unmatched resource for researchers, policy makers, practitioners, and activists new to and already familiar with the field as it rapidly develops and expands.

Hinduism in the Modern World
Hinduism in the Modern World

Author: Brian A. Hatcher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-05

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 113504631X

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Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora. Organized to reflect the direction of recent scholarly research, this volume breaks with earlier texts on this subject by seeking to overcome a misleading dichotomy between an elite, intellectualist "modern" Hinduism and the rest of what has so often been misleadingly termed "traditional" or "popular" Hinduism. Without neglecting the significance of modern reformist visions of Hinduism, this book reconceptualizes the meaning of "modern Hinduism" both by expanding its content and by situating its expression within a larger framework of history, ethnography, and contemporary critical theory. This volume equips undergraduate readers with the tools necessary to appreciate the richness and diversity of Hinduism as it has developed during the past two centuries.

Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century
Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the early twentieth century

Author: Susie J. Tharu

Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 9781558610279

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Includes songs by Buddhist nuns, testimonies of medieval rebel poets and court historians, and the voices of more than 60 other writers of the 18th and 19th centuries. Among the diverse selections are a rare early essay by an untouchable woman; an account by the first feminist historian; and a selection from the first novel written in English by an Indian woman.

Is the Goddess a Feminist?
Is the Goddess a Feminist?

Author: Alf Hiltebeitel

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780814736197

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American and Indian scholars of religion, anthropology, women's studies, and psychology look at the complex relationship between the living worship of female divinities and women in India. In keeping with the multiplicity, especially of Hinduism but also Buddhism and Jainism, the anthology presents a number of sometimes conflicting views rather than a consistent account. Only authors are indexed. c. Book News Inc.