Invented identities: the interplay of gender, religion and politics in India/ edited by Julia Leslie, Mary McGee - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2000. - xiii, 309 p. ; 22 cm. - (SOAS studies on South Asia) .

Speaking gender: vāc and the vedic construction of the feminine / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman --
Language, gender and power: the sexual politics of language and language acquisition in traditional India / Robert P. Goldman --
The evolution of third-sex constructs in ancient India: a study in ambiguity / Leonard Zwilling and Michael J. Sweet --
Untouchables, women and territories: rituals of lordship in the Parāśara Smrti / Mikael Aktor --
From nāyikā to bhakta: a genealogy of female subjectivity in early medieval India / Daud Ali --
Pierced by love: Tamil possession, gender and caste / Karin Kapadia --
From demon aunt to gorgeous bride: women portray female power in a north Indian festival cycle / Ann Grodzins Gold --
Heroes alone and heroes at home: gender and intertextuality in two narratives / Lindsey Harlan --
Gender and the representation of violence in Pandav Lila / William S. Sax --
Engendering communal violence: men as victims, women as agents / Amrita Basu --
Identifying differences: gender politics and religious community in rural Uttar Pradesh / Patricia Jeffery.

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