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Hinduism and Feminism

Hinduism and Feminism

Individual Feminists:

Alleyn Diesel

Hinduism and
Feminism is also
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Bangladesh

India

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      Bibliography

      Diesel, Alleyn. "The Empowering Image of the Divine Mother - A South African Hindu Woman Worshipping the Goddess." Journal for Contemporary Religion. Vol 13, No 1, 1998. pp 73-90.

      Diesel, Alleyn. "The Mother's Daughters - Hindu Women Worshipping the Goddess." Women's Studies. Vol 8 No 2, 1996. pp 61-85 (University of the Transkei).

      Diesel, Alleyn. "The Ramakrishna Sarada Devi Ashram for Women in South Africa." Journal for Contemporary Religion. Vol 11 No 2, 1996. pp 169-184.

      Diesel, Alleyn. "Ritual and Drama in the worship of the Goddess Draupadi." Journal for the Study of Religion. Vol 7 No 1 1994. pp 65-94.

      Diesel, Alleyn. "The Worship and iconography of the Hindu Folk Goddesses in Natal." Journal for the Study of Religion. Vol 5 No 2, 1992. pp 3-30.

      Feldhaus, Anne. Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra. Oxford, 1995.

      Jeffery, Patricia and Amrita Basu, ed. Appropriating Gender: Women's Activism and Politicized Religion in South Asia. NY: Routledge, 1997.

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