{"product_id":"mutating-goddesses-bengals-laukika-hinduism-and-gender-rights-hardcover","title":"Mutating Goddesses: Bengal's Laukika Hinduism and Gender Rights - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSaswati SenGupta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities - Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi--- from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical evolution\/devolution of divinities in tandem with sectarian interests and illumines in the process the knotted correlation of gender, caste and class in the sanctioning of female subjectivities through goddess formation. \u003cbr\u003eThe critical studies of Hindu goddesses have been dominated by the sastrik perspective deriving from the Sanskrit scriptures authorized by the male Brahman. But there are religious practices and beliefs under the broad rubric of Hinduism that are neither governed by the male Brahman nor articulated in Sanskrit. It is this vibrant laukika archive-- - considered low from the hegemonic perspective---that M\u003cem\u003eutating Goddesses\u003c\/em\u003e explores to realize the politic trafficking between this realm and the sastrik. The book excavates the multiple and layered heritage of the region which includes tribal culture, Buddhism, Tantricism, and so on, as is available in rituals, proverbs, verses, circulating myths, poetic genres and kathas, caste manuals, census records etc to illustrate how tradition is a matter of strategic selection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaswati Sengupta, \u003cem\u003eAssociate Professor, Department of English, Miranda House\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSaswati Sengupta has been teaching English literature at Miranda House, Delhi University, for more than thirty years. Her primary research and academic publications have been feminist interventions in the areas of myths, Hindu goddesses and their material locations, mutations and political mobilizations. Believing in, and enjoying, collective endeavour she has jointly published papers analyzing the problems of foregrounding post-colonial theories in understanding contemporary India and co-edited the anthologies \u003cem\u003eTowards Freedom: Critical Essays on Rabindranath Tagore's Ghare Baire\/The\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eHome and the World, \u003c\/em\u003e 2007, \u003cem\u003eRevisiting Kalidasa's Abhijnana-Sakuntalam: Love, Lineage and Language in Kalidasa's Nataka\u003c\/em\u003e, 2011, and \u003cem\u003eBad Women of Bombay Films: Studies in Desire and Anxiety\u003c\/em\u003e, forthcoming 2019. \u003cbr\u003eSaswati's novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Song Seekers\u003c\/em\u003e (2011) was listed for DSC prize for South Asian Literatures, 2013.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 375\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 8.76 x 5.92 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 04, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47574582919389,"sku":"9780190124106","price":156.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/RXWUvcC8HD9780190124106.webp?v=1773425443","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/mutating-goddesses-bengals-laukika-hinduism-and-gender-rights-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}