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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Mary Whitney Kelting |
ISBN: | 9780195389647 0195389646 |
OCLC Number: | 301798495 |
Description: | ix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. Thinking about wifehood -- pt. I. Making ideal marriages -- 2. Fasting, Saubhagya, and Jain Sati narratives -- 3. Jain Satis, women's agency, and bad marriages -- 4. The perfect marriage -- pt. II. Negotiating discourses -- 5. Jains and Satimata discourse -- 6. Embodying wifehood -- Conclusion : the pleasures of Jain wifehood. |
Responsibility: | M. Whitney Kelting. |
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