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The power of gender & the gender of power : explorations in early Indian history
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Papers mostly presented at various seminars; some previously published.
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- Creator
- Kumkum Roy
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- Power of gender and the gender of power
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- English
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- New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010
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- xiv, 386 pages ; 23 cm
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- 9780198066767, 0198066767
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- ocn656829223
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- pt. 1. Towards histories of gender relations -- pt. 2. Interrogating textual traditions
- Towards histories of gender relations. Of Theras and Therīs : visions of liberation in the early Buddhist tradition ; Women and men donors at Sanchi : a study of the inscriptional evidence ; The other Kṣetra : some aspects of procreation and peasantization in North India (c. 2nd century BC-2nd century AD) ; Defining the household : some aspects of prescription and practice in early India ; Engendering the urban world : an investigation of early Indian textual traditions ; Re-presenting the courtesanal tradition : an exploration of early historical texts ; Representations of gender relations in early India : exploring the plays of Kālidāsa ; Turbulant waves : constructions of gender relations in the Rājataraṅgiṇi of Kalhaṇa ; The politics of reproduction in early India : controlling and contesting conceptions ; Gender relations during the first millennium : an overview -- Interrogating textual traditions. Marriage as communication : an exploration of norms and narratives in early India ; Legitimation and the Brahmanical tradition : the Upanayana and the Brahmacarya in the Dharma Sūtras ; Invoking authority : investigating the Śāstras ; The king's household : structure/space in the Śāstric tradition ; Justice in the Jātakas ; Domesticating the king : the royal household in early North India ; Unravelling the Kāmasūtra ; The making of a maṇḍala : fuzzy frontiers of Kalhaṇa's Kashmir ; The artful biographer : Sandhyākāranandin's Rāmacaritan