Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses
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0195664191
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287p., Index.
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The Goddesses of Hinduism and Buddhism represent the largest extant collection of living female divinities anywhere in the world. These South Asian Goddesses, interestingly, are also products of predominantly patriarchal and male supremacist societies. The fifteen interdisciplinary essays in this book engage with the impact of powerful female deities—their images, projections, textuality and history—on the social standing and psychological health of women. Do ...
