Subverting Patriarchy through Celibacy, Renunciation, and Ritual Performance: The Kanyas of Sakori Ashram in India
Drawing from fieldwork with a Hindu women renunciants' group based in Sakori, a small village in western India, the author shows how their practices of celibacy, renunciation, and ritual performance represent a distinct kind of feminism. Pandya describes their way of life as a challenge to domi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Indiana University Press
[2019]
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Journal of feminist studies in religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 35, Issue: 1, Pages: 21-34 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India (West)
/ Hindu woman
/ Ashrama
/ Detachment
/ Sexual abstinence
/ Feminism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism |
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