LEADER 03134oam 2200649I 450 001 9910495885803321 005 20230207213203.0 010 $a0-520-91421-X 010 $a0-585-10443-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520914216 035 $a(CKB)111000211184442 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000192925 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12023828 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000192925 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10218227 035 $a(PQKB)10059942 035 $a(DE-B1597)649299 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520914216 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211184442 100 $a20160829d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aListen to the heron's words $ereimagining gender and kinship in North India /$fGloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (xxxvii, 234 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-08371-7 311 $a0-520-08370-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aIn many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, symbolic herons speak, telling of alternative moral perspectives shaped by women. The heron's words-and women's expressive genres more generally-criticize pervasive North Indian ideologies of gender and kinship that place women in subordinate positions. By inviting readers to "listen to the heron's words," the authors convey this shift in moral perspective and suggest that these spoken truths are compelling and consequential for the women in North India.The songs and narratives bear witness to a provocative cultural dissonance embedded in women's speech. This book reveals the power of these critical commentaries and the fluid and permeable boundaries between spoken words and the lives of ordinary village women. 606 $aFolk literature, Indic$zIndia$zUttar Pradesh 606 $aFolk literature, Indic$xIndia$zRajasthan 606 $aWomen$zIndia$vFolklore 606 $aSex role$zIndia 606 $aFolklore$2HILCC 606 $aAnthropology$2HILCC 606 $aSocial Sciences$2HILCC 607 $aRajasthan (India)$xSocial life and customs 607 $aUttar Pradesh (India)$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aFolk literature, Indic 615 0$aFolk literature, Indic$xIndia 615 0$aWomen 615 0$aSex role 615 7$aFolklore 615 7$aAnthropology 615 7$aSocial Sciences 676 $a398.2/0954/2 700 $aRaheja$b Gloria Goodwin$f1950-$01232829 702 $aGold$b Ann Grodzins$f1946- 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495885803321 996 $aListen to the heron's words$92862680 997 $aUNINA