by Gloria Goodwin Raheja (Author), Gloria Goodwin Raheja (Author)
In many South Asian oral traditions, women are viewed as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity. This ethnographical study of women in certain North Indian villages criticizes local ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 290
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 13 May 1994
ISBN 10: 0520083717
ISBN 13: 9780520083714