TY  - BOOK
AU  - Raheja, Gloria Goodwin.
AU  - Gold, Ann Grodzins.
TI  - Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India
SN  - 9780520083714 (pbk.)
U1  - 398.209542 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Berkeley		
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Women
KW  - India - Rajasthan
N1  - https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520083714/listen-to-the-herons-words
N2  - In 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
ER  -