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Gender and narrative in the Mahabharata /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London :
Routledge,
2007.
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| Series: | RoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series.
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Table of Contents:
- Listen but do not grieve--Eavesdropping on the epic--Arguments of a queen--How do you conduct yourself?Gender and the construction of a dialogical self in the Mahabharata--Among friends:marriage women and some little birds--Gendered soteriology--Bhisma as match maker--Bhisma beyond freud--Show you are a man ! Transsexuality and gender bending in the characters of Arjuna/Brhannada and Amba/Sikhandin--Krsna's son Samba--Paradigms of the good in the Mahabharata.