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Author Raheja, Gloria Goodwin, 1950-

Title Listen to the heron's words : reimagining gender and kinship in North India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 234 pages) : illustrations, map
Series Online access: California Digital Library UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 (Open Access)
Contents Preface: Listening to Women in Rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold and Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs / Ann Grodzins Gold -- On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story / Ann Grodzins Gold -- Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions / Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold -- Appendix: Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts -- Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words
Analysis Folk literature
Uttar Pradesh (India)
Rajasthan (India)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Folk literature, Indic -- India -- Uttar Pradesh
Folk literature, Indic -- India -- Rajasthan
Women -- India -- Folklore
Sex role -- India
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Folk literature, Indic
Manners and customs
Sex role
Women
SUBJECT Rajasthan (India) -- Social life and customs
Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Social life and customs
Subject India
India -- Rajasthan
India -- Uttar Pradesh
Genre/Form Folklore
Form Electronic book
Author Gold, Ann Grodzins, 1946-
ISBN 9780520914216
052091421X
0585104433
9780585104430
9780520083707
0520083709
9780520083714
0520083717