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From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture Book

From the Margins of Hindu Marriage : Paperback : Oxford University Press Inc : 9780195081183 : 0195081188 : 07 Mar 1996 : This is a collection of previously unpublished essays exploring the meanings of marriage in South Asian Hindu culture: its practices, assumption, sensibilities and discontents. The authors use new understandings of gender to study local practices, attitudes, folk narratives, ritual symbols, and religious sensibilities as they bear on religion, gender, and social life in the Hindu world.Read More

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    Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on normative expectations within marriage, they examine times in which norms are tested or rejected. Using stories, songs, and narrated accounts, the essays treat such topics as widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and suttee, as well as the subversion of marriage by devotion to deities and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience.

  • 0195081188
  • 9780195081183
  • 7 March 1996
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 264
  • New Ed
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