From the margins of hindu marriage: essay on gender, religion, and culture/
edited by Lindsey Harlan and Paul B. Courtright
- New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
- xii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"Crying when she's born, and crying when she goes away": marriage and the idiom of the gift in Pahansu song performance / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- The dilemmas of domesticity: possession and devotional experience among urban Smarta women / Mary E. Hancock -- No longer a wife: widows in rural north India / Susan S. Wadley -- The "Jungli Rani" and other troubled wives in Rajasthani oral traditions / Ann Grodzins Gold -- The effectiveness of the Hindu Sacrament (Samskara): caste, marriage, and divorce in Bengali culture / Ralph W. Nicholas -- Begetting on margin: adultery and surrogate pseudomarriage in Hinduism / Wendy Doniger -- Sati, sacrifice, and marriage: the modernity of tradition / Paul B. Courtright -- Abandoning shame: Mira and the margins of marriage / Lindsey Harlan.