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020			_a9780520083714 (pbk.)
082			_a398.209542 _bRAH
100			_aRaheja, Gloria Goodwin. _91226
245			_aListen to the heron's words : _breimagining gender and kinship in North India
260			_aBerkeley _bUniversity of California Press _c1994
300			_axxxvii, 234p.,
500			_ahttps://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520083714/listen-to-the-herons-words
520			_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.
650			_aManners and customs _91227
650			_aWomen _91228
650			_aIndia - Rajasthan _91229
700			_aGold, Ann Grodzins. _91230
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