The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining - Image 1

£74.16

MACMILLAN The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining

Name: The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining
Brand: MACMILLAN
Price: 74.16 GBP
Availability: InStock

Biography

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 3 months ago.

£74 today · all-time low £73 (Jun 2026) · usually £74

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 62 days · 62 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 62 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £74 (33 days, 53.2%)

Price range: £74 - £75

Price levels: 2 different prices over 62 days

Description

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 Womansplainer can encourage a more dialogic structure of gender relations in today’s world where female voices are still often undervalued.

Product Specifications

Brand: MACMILLAN
Format: paperback
ASIN: 3030524574
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 August 2021
Listed Since: 01 August 2021

Barcode

No barcode data available

MACMILLAN The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining

About as cheap as it gets. The only time it was cheaper was 3 months ago.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Women’s Authority and Leadership in a Hindu Goddess Tradition

Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses

Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time

The Cult of Beauty: Gender Discourse in Indian Advertising

Gender, Media and Voice: Communicative Injustice and Public Speech

Gender and Authority across Disciplines, Space and Time

Silence, Feminism, Power: Reflections at the Edges of Sound

Mythologizing in South Asian Traditions: Myth, Gender, Power, and Politics

Women and Spirituality: Voices of Protest and Promise: 15 (Women in Society: A Feminist List)

Performing Gender at Work

Gendered Discourse in the Professional Workplace (Communicating in Professions and Organizations)

Gender, Authorship, and Early Modern Women’s Collaboration (Early Modern Literature in History)

Indian Women as Entrepreneurs: An Exploration of Self-Identity

The Concept of the Goddess

De-Gendering Gendered Occupations: Analysing Professional Discourse (Routledge Research in Language, Gender, and Sexuality)

Gender and Sovereignty: Feminism, the State and International Relations

Chastity in Ancient Indian Texts: Precept, Practice, and Portrayal

Development and Gender Capital in India: Change, Continuity and Conflict in Kerala (Routledge Research on Asian Development)

What is Masculinity?: Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World (Genders and Sexualities in History)

Gender and Genre in Ethnographic Writing (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology)

Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage: Playing Women

Gender Innovation in Political Science: New Norms, New Knowledge (Gender and Politics)

The Pedagogic and the Performative in Indian Theatre: Negotiations of a Feminist Collaborative Imagination

Gender Studies: Terms and Debates