E. FEMINIST EVALUATIONS OF EPIC WOMEN CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO; PART IV; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR; CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE; CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX; CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN; CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT; CONTRIBUTORS
Summary
Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of ""Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets"" and ""Epic Women of India and Beyond."" The contributors explore the tendency of patriarchal societies to label exceptional saint-poets yearning for the divine as ""mad"" because of their resistance to normative and acceptable female behavior. Scholars and performers jour ..
