The power of gender and the gender of power: explorations in early indian history

This volume examines the role of gender in the conceptualization of power relations in early India through a comprehensive analysis of institutions, processes, and texts. INDICE: SECTION I: TOWARDS HISTORIES OF GENDER RELATIONS; 1.: Of Therasand Theris: Visions of Liberation in the Early Buddhist Tradition; 2.: Women and Men Donors at Sanchi: A Study of the Inscriptional Evidence; 3.: The OtherKsetra-Some Aspects of Procreation and Peasantization in North India (c. 2nd Century BC to c. 2nd Century AD); 4.: Defining the Household: Some Aspects of Prescription and Practice in Early India; 5.: Engendering the Urban World: An Investigation of Early Indian Textual Traditions; 6.: Re-Presenting the Courtesenal Tradition: An Exploitation of Early Historical Texts; 7.: : Representation of Gender Relations in Early India: Exploring the Plays of K?lid?sa;; 8.: Turbulent Waves: Constructions of Gender Relations in the Rajatarangini of Kalhana; Chapter; 10.: Gender Relations During the First Millennium: An Overview;;SECTION II: INTERROGATING TEXTUAL TRADITIONS; 11.: Marriage as Communication:An Exploration of Norms and Narratives in Early India; Chapter; 13.: InvokingAuthority: Investigating the Sastras;; 14.: Searching for Humanity: The Case of the Manusmrti;; 15.: The King's Household: Structure/Space in the Sastric tradition;; 16.: Spatial Expressions of Socio-Political Relations: an Investigation of the Palace and Stupa in Early Historical India;; 17.: Justice in the Jatakas;; 18.: :Domesticating the King: The Royal Household in Early North India;; 19.: Unravelling the Kamasutra;; 20.: The Making of a Mandala: Fuzzy Frontiers of Kalhana's Kashmir;; 21.: The Artful Biographer-Sandhyakaranandins' Ramacaritam; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-806676-7
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 26/08/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés