| 书目名称 | The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions | | 副标题 | Devi and Womansplain | | 编辑 | Anway Mukhopadhyay | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Presents a novel presentation and examination of text and praxis of Indic goddess culture.Explores numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Contemporary debates on “mansplaining” foreground the authority enjoyed by male speech, and highlight the way it projects listening as the responsibility of the dominated, and speech as the privilege of the dominant. What mansplaining denies systematically is the right of women to speak and be heard as much as men. This book excavates numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates, especially to the issues of mansplaining and womansplaining. These traditions present a paradigm of female speech that compels its male audience to reframe the configurations of “masculinity.” This tradition of authoritative female speech forms a continuum, even though there are many points of disjuncture as well as conjuncture between the Vedic, Upanishadic, puranic, and tantric figurations of the Goddess as an authoritative speaker. The book underlines the Goddess’s role as the spiritual mentor of her devotee, exemplified in the Devi Gitas, and re-situates the female gurus in Hinduism within the traditions that find in Devi’s speech ultimate spiritual authority. Moreover, it explores whether the figure of Devi as | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 关键词 | goddess; gender justice; tantra; masculinity; female speech; female authority; Indic scripture; religion an | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52455-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-52457-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-52455-5 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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