This book highlights debates in the epics among men and women from all sections of society. These debates criticize discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and disability through the dharmas of singleness, friendship, marriage, parenting, and ruling.
This book highlights debates in the epics among men and women from all sections of society. These debates criticize discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and disability through the dharmas of singleness, friendship, marriage, parenting, and ruling.
Ruth Vanita taught at Delhi University for 20 years and is now Professor at the University of Montana. She was founding volunteer co-editor of Manushi , India's first nationwide feminist magazine, and an activist in the Indian women's and civil liberties movements from 1978 to 1991. The author of many books, including Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination; A Play of Light: Selected Poems; Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India (new edition 2020), she has published over 70 scholarly articles and translated several works of fiction and poetry from Hindi and Urdu. She co-edited the pioneering Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History. Her first novel, Memory of Light, appeared from Penguin in 2020.
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Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Arjuna and Krishna: Friends Discuss the Family 3: Varna: Defined by Birth or by Action? 4: Gender and the Dharma of Singleness, Marriage, and Desire 5: What is Gender? 6: Female-Male Non-Sexual Union 7: Revenge, Forgiveness, and Gender-Crossing 8: Rebirth, Gender, and Rage 9: Gender and the Dharma of Parenting 10: Citizens, Rulers, and Non-Violence 11: Kindness to Animals: the Dharma Most Available to All 12: Animals and the Joys of Intellect: Tulsidas's Crow Narrator and the Hanuman Chalisa
Acknowledgments 1: Introduction 2: Arjuna and Krishna: Friends Discuss the Family 3: Varna: Defined by Birth or by Action? 4: Gender and the Dharma of Singleness, Marriage, and Desire 5: What is Gender? 6: Female-Male Non-Sexual Union 7: Revenge, Forgiveness, and Gender-Crossing 8: Rebirth, Gender, and Rage 9: Gender and the Dharma of Parenting 10: Citizens, Rulers, and Non-Violence 11: Kindness to Animals: the Dharma Most Available to All 12: Animals and the Joys of Intellect: Tulsidas's Crow Narrator and the Hanuman Chalisa
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