The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species
by Vanita, RuthFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2022-10-31
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
Other versions by this Author
List Price: $101.33
Buy New
Usually Ships in 5-7 Business Days
$100.82
Rent Textbook
Select for Price
Rent Digital
Online:
180 Days access
Downloadable: 180 Days
Downloadable: 180 Days
$69.47
Online:
365 Days access
Downloadable: 365 Days
Downloadable: 365 Days
$80.16
Online:
1460 Days access
Downloadable: Lifetime Access
Downloadable: Lifetime Access
$106.86
$69.47
Used Textbook
We're Sorry
Sold Out
This item is being sold by an Individual Seller and will not ship from the Online Bookstore's warehouse. The Seller must confirm the order within two business days. If the Seller refuses to sell or fails to confirm within this time frame, then the order is cancelled.
Please be sure to read the Description offered by the Seller.
Author Biography
Ruth Vanita
Ruth Vanita taught at Delhi University for 20 years and is now Professor at the University of Montana. She was founding volunteer co-editor of Manushi, India's first nationwide feminist magazine, and an activist in the Indian women's and civil liberties movements from 1978 to 1991. The author of
many books, including Sappho and the Virgin Mary: Same-Sex Love and the English Literary Imagination; A Play of Light: Selected Poems; Love's Rite: Same-Sex Marriage in India (new edition 2020), she has published over 70 scholarly articles and translated several works of fiction and poetry from
Hindi and Urdu. She co-edited the pioneering Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History. Her first novel, Memory of Light, appeared from Penguin in 2020.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Ruth Vanita
1. Introduction
2. Arjuna and Krishna: Friends Discuss the Family
3. Varna: Defined by Birth or by Action?
4. Gender and the Dharma of Singleness, Marriage, and Desire
5. What is Gender?
6. Female-Male Non-Sexual Union
7. Revenge, Forgiveness, and Gender-Crossing
8. Rebirth, Gender, and Rage
9. Gender and the Dharma of Parenting
10. Citizens, Rulers, and Non-Violence
11. Kindness to Animals: the Dharma Most Available to All
12. Animals and the Joys of Intellect: Tulsidas's Crow Narrator and the Hanuman Chalisa
An electronic version of this book is available through VitalSource.
This book is viewable on PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and most smartphones.
By purchasing, you will be able to view this book online, as well as download it, for the chosen number of days.
A downloadable version of this book is available through the eCampus Reader or compatible Adobe readers.
Applications are available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Windows Mobile platforms.
Please view the compatibility matrix prior to purchase.