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- catalog abstract ""This book offers a variety of scholarly studies in the idea, situation, and definition - including the self-definition - of women in India, from the earliest historical period up to the present day. Both in its range of topics and depth of research, this volume creates a sustained focus that is not presently available in the literature of women in India."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11135244.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This book offers a variety of scholarly studies in the idea, situation, and definition - including the self-definition - of women in India, from the earliest historical period up to the present day. Both in its range of topics and depth of research, this volume creates a sustained focus that is not presently available in the literature of women in India."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A controversy over a verse on the remarriage of Hindu women / Krishna Datta -- Satī: the event and the ideology / Mandakranta Bose -- Satyavatī: the matriarch of the Mahābhārata / Jayatri Ghosh -- Usable women: the tales of Ambā and Mādhavī / Madhusraba Dasgupta -- Anasūyā: a pativratā with panache / Vidyut Aklujkar -- "The wildering gloom": women's place in Buddhist history / Chapla Verma -- The goddess, women, and their rituals in Hinduism / Samjukta Gombrich Gupta -- The goddess-woman equation in Śākta Tantras / Madhu Khanna -- Women's wealth and worship: female patronage of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie Orr -- The goddess-woman nexus in popular religious practice: the cult of Manasā / Manasi Dasgupta and Mandakranta Bose -- Mīrābai in the academy and the politics of identity / Nancy Martin-Kershaw -- Candrāvati Rāmāyaṇa: feminizing the Rāma-tale / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Women saints in medieval Maharashtra / Eleanor Zelliot -- Powers behind the throne: women in early Mughal politics / Mriducchanda Palit -- For our native sisters: the Wesleyan Ladies Auxiliary in India / Sarika P. Bose -- Flora Annie Steel: a voice for Indian women? / Karyn Huenemann -- Exploring tradition and change among women in Marathi culture / Suma Chitnis -- The construction of gender in history and religion: the Sikh case / Doris R. Jakobsh -- Postcolonial identity as feminist fantasy: a study of Tamil women's short fiction on dowry / Matilda Gabrielpillai -- Eroticism and the woman writer in Bengali culture / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Women in radical movements in Bengal in the 1940s: the story of the Mahilā Ātmarakṣā Samiti (Women's Self-defense League) / Tripti Chaudhuri -- The feminist movement in West Bengal: from the eighties to the nineties / Maitreyi Chatterjee.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 346 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0195122291".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "India".
- catalog subject "305.4/0954 21".
- catalog subject "HQ1741 .C36 1999".
- catalog subject "Women India History.".
- catalog subject "Women India Religious aspects.".
- catalog subject "Women India Social conditions.".
- catalog tableOfContents "A controversy over a verse on the remarriage of Hindu women / Krishna Datta -- Satī: the event and the ideology / Mandakranta Bose -- Satyavatī: the matriarch of the Mahābhārata / Jayatri Ghosh -- Usable women: the tales of Ambā and Mādhavī / Madhusraba Dasgupta -- Anasūyā: a pativratā with panache / Vidyut Aklujkar -- "The wildering gloom": women's place in Buddhist history / Chapla Verma -- The goddess, women, and their rituals in Hinduism / Samjukta Gombrich Gupta -- The goddess-woman equation in Śākta Tantras / Madhu Khanna -- Women's wealth and worship: female patronage of Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie Orr -- The goddess-woman nexus in popular religious practice: the cult of Manasā / Manasi Dasgupta and Mandakranta Bose -- Mīrābai in the academy and the politics of identity / Nancy Martin-Kershaw -- Candrāvati Rāmāyaṇa: feminizing the Rāma-tale / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Women saints in medieval Maharashtra / Eleanor Zelliot -- Powers behind the throne: women in early Mughal politics / Mriducchanda Palit -- For our native sisters: the Wesleyan Ladies Auxiliary in India / Sarika P. Bose -- Flora Annie Steel: a voice for Indian women? / Karyn Huenemann -- Exploring tradition and change among women in Marathi culture / Suma Chitnis -- The construction of gender in history and religion: the Sikh case / Doris R. Jakobsh -- Postcolonial identity as feminist fantasy: a study of Tamil women's short fiction on dowry / Matilda Gabrielpillai -- Eroticism and the woman writer in Bengali culture / Nabaneeta Dev Sen -- Women in radical movements in Bengal in the 1940s: the story of the Mahilā Ātmarakṣā Samiti (Women's Self-defense League) / Tripti Chaudhuri -- The feminist movement in West Bengal: from the eighties to the nineties / Maitreyi Chatterjee.".
- catalog title "Faces of the feminine in ancient, medieval and modern times / edited by Mandakranta Bose.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".