Listen to the Heron's Words Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India

Name: Listen to the Heron's Words Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India
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ISBN: 9780520083714

ISBN-10: 0520083717

ISBN-13: 9780520083714

Edition: 1994

Authors: Gloria Goodwin Raheja, Ann Grodzins Gold

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In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words--and women's expressive genres more generally--criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 4/29/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.13" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Ann Grodzins Gold is Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Syracuse University.



List of Illustrations


Note on Transcription and Transliteration


Note on Kinship Terms


Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India




Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India




Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs




On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin




On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality




Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case




Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story




Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions



Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts


Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words


Bibliography


Index