Women in Ochre Robes : Gendering Hindu Renunciation

Khandelwal, Meena

ISBN 10: 0791459225 / ISBN 13: 9780791459225

Editore: State University of New York Press, 2003

Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Codice articolo 5102388-6

Riassunto:

Meena Khandelwal offers an engaging and intimate portrait of extraordinary Hindu women in India who wear "ochre robes," signifying their renunciation of marriage and family for lives of celibacy, asceticism, and spiritual discipline. While the largely male Hindu ascetic tradition of sannyasa renders its initiates ritually "dead" to their previous identities, the women portrayed here are very much alive. They struggle with, and joke about, the tensions and ironies of living in the world while trying not to be of it.

Khandelwal juxtaposes the common refrain that "in renunciation there is no male and female" with arguments that underscore the importance of gender. In exploring these apparent contradictions, she brings together worldly and otherworldly values within renunciation and argues that these create tensions that are at once emotional, social, and philosophical.

Informazioni sull?autore: Meena Khandelwal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at the University of Iowa.

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Titolo: Women in Ochre Robes : Gendering Hindu ...
Casa editrice: State University of New York Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2003
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good