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1 online resource (220 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of ""Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets"" and ""Epic Women of India and Beyond."" The contributors explore the tendency of patriarchal societies to label exceptional saint-poets yearning for the divine as ""mad"" because of their resistance to normative and acceptable female behavior. Scholars and performers jour ... |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; PART II; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CHAPTER TEN; PART III; A. FEMALE ICONS OF INDIA'S ANCIENT EPICS RE-VISITED; CHAPTER ELEVEN; CHAPTER TWELVE; CHAPTER THIRTEEN; CHAPTER FOURTEEN; B. EPIC WOMEN OF INDIAN DANCE; CHAPTER FIFTEEN; CHAPTER SIXTEEN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN; CHAPTER NINETEEN; C. DARK WOMEN OF EPICSAND DRAMATIC LITERATURE; CHAPTER TWENTY; D. EPIC WOMEN IN POLITICS; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE |
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E. FEMINIST EVALUATIONS OF EPIC WOMEN CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO; PART IV; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT; CONTRIBUTORS |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Women -- India -- History.
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Women. |
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India. |
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History. |
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Women poets.
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Women poets. |
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Poets, Indic.
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Poets, Indic. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Raj, Anita Ratnam.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Katrak, Ketu H. Voyages of Body and Soul : Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2014 9781443856447 |
| ISBN |
9781443861151 (electronic book) |
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1443861154 (electronic book) |
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1306859085 (e-book) |
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9781306859080 (e-book) |
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9781443856447 |
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