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Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India

Vijaya Ramaswamy

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Description:Women have been excluded from history. They are also as often excluded from recent reconstructions of history. Vijaya Ramaswamy has a message to impart when she shows how women express themselves in the sphere in response to their material situation within society. South Indian history is the terrain she chooses to prove her point. Her larger vision is not however constrained by any boundaries.This book maps the spiritual history of women in the context structures through historical time and space. The study looks at the issues of gender inequalities in the context of dominance and power and the debates over female sexuality and salvation. In the process, spiritually emerges as a powerful form of women’s self expression finding its voice in the various cathartic spiritual movements. Manifestations of female spirituality in particular societies, whether feudal, quasi-feudal or colonial, varied from tacit conformism (to male spiritual/social leadership) to deviance and even defiance. The author goes back in historical time to the material spiritualism of the Sangam Tamils and forward into the era of colonial transition. The Deccan and the region south of the Vindhyas form the geographical liminalities of this study which opens up the possibility of a wider study of women society and spiritually in the broader context of the South Asian region.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India. To get started finding Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 299

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2007

ISBN: 8185952396

Description: Women have been excluded from history. They are also as often excluded from recent reconstructions of history. Vijaya Ramaswamy has a message to impart when she shows how women express themselves in the sphere in response to their material situation within society. South Indian history is the terrain she chooses to prove her point. Her larger vision is not however constrained by any boundaries.This book maps the spiritual history of women in the context structures through historical time and space. The study looks at the issues of gender inequalities in the context of dominance and power and the debates over female sexuality and salvation. In the process, spiritually emerges as a powerful form of women’s self expression finding its voice in the various cathartic spiritual movements. Manifestations of female spirituality in particular societies, whether feudal, quasi-feudal or colonial, varied from tacit conformism (to male spiritual/social leadership) to deviance and even defiance. The author goes back in historical time to the material spiritualism of the Sangam Tamils and forward into the era of colonial transition. The Deccan and the region south of the Vindhyas form the geographical liminalities of this study which opens up the possibility of a wider study of women society and spiritually in the broader context of the South Asian region.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India. To get started finding Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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