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245 0 _aInvented identities: the interplay of gender, religion and politics in India/
_cedited by Julia Leslie, Mary McGee
260 _aNew Delhi:
_bOxford University Press,
_c2000.
300 _axiii, 309 p. ;
_c22 cm.
440 _a(SOAS studies on South Asia)
505 _aSpeaking 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.
650 _aMan-woman relationships
650 _aReligion and politics
650 _aSex--Religious aspects
650 _aSex role--Political aspects
700 _aLeslie, Julia, ed.
700 _aMcGee, Mary, ed.
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