Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India

Listen to the Heron's Words

Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India

Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold

Suggested citation:
Raheja, Gloria Goodwin, and Ann Grodzins Gold. Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5x0nb3v0/

Note on Transcription and Transliteration
Note on Kinship Terms
Preface Listening to Women in Rural North India

1 Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India
2 Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs
3 On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin
Plates
4 On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality
5 Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case
6 Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story
7 Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions

Appendix Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts
Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words
Bibliography

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