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Indigenous roots of feminism : culture, subjectivity and agency /

Indigenous Roots of Feminism: Culture, Subjectivity and Agency is an exploration of the historical sources across India's composite culture that have shaped the female self. Beginning with the Upanishads, it works with several foundational texts such as the epics and their retellings, Manusmrit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jain, Jasbir
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, c2011.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • A people without a history?
  • The body and the soul : epics : the living tradition
  • Working through space : patriarchy and resistance
  • Getting back at men through God
  • The nineteenth century and after
  • Articulating the self
  • Tracing the difference.