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Listen to the heron's words : reimagining gender and kinship in North India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (xxxvii, 234 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520914216
  • 052091421X
  • 0585104433
  • 9780585104430
  • 9780520083707
  • 0520083709
  • 9780520083714
  • 0520083717
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Listen to the heron's words.DDC classification:
  • 398.2/0954/2 20
LOC classification:
  • GR305.5.U8 R34 1994eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold and Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs / Ann Grodzins Gold -- On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions / Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold -- Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts -- Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.

Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold and Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs / Ann Grodzins Gold -- On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions / Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold -- Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts -- Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words.

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