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The Blind Girl Sees - Seeing Through the Heart and Not the Eyes (Hardcover): Amber Needham The Blind Girl Sees - Seeing Through the Heart and Not the Eyes (Hardcover)
Amber Needham
R809 R713 Discovery Miles 7 130 Save R96 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Second Chance - My Life in Things (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Ruth Rosengarten Second Chance - My Life in Things (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Ruth Rosengarten
R1,318 Discovery Miles 13 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
As Far As The I Can See (Hardcover, 2nd ed.): Julie Heifetz As Far As The I Can See (Hardcover, 2nd ed.)
Julie Heifetz
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Real Sadhus Sing to God - Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan (Hardcover): Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli Real Sadhus Sing to God - Gender, Asceticism, and Vernacular Religion in Rajasthan (Hardcover)
Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli
R3,856 Discovery Miles 38 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this groundbreaking book, based on in-depth ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli brings to light the little known, and often marginalized, lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. Her book offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today, exploring a phenomenon she terms vernacular asceticism. Examining the everyday religious worlds and practices of primarily "unlettered" female sadhus who come from a variety of castes, Real Sadhus Sing to God illustrates that the female sadhus whom DeNapoli knew experience asceticism in relational and celebratory ways and construct their lives as paths of singing to God. While the sadhus have combined ritual initiation with institutionalized and orthodox orders of asceticism, they also draw on the non-orthodox traditions of the medieval devotional poet-saints of North India to create a form of asceticism that synthesizes multiple and competing world views. DeNapoli suggests that in the vernacular asceticism of the sadhus, singing to God serves as the female way of being an ascetic. As women who have escaped the dominant societal expectations of marriage and housework, female sadhus are unusual because they devote themselves to a way of life traditionally reserved for men in Indian society. Female sadhus are simultaneously respected and distrusted for transgressing normative gender roles in order to dedicate themselves to a life of singing to the divine. Real Sadhus Sing to God is the first book-length study to explore the ways in which female sadhus perform and, thus, create gendered views of asceticism through their singing, storytelling, and sacred text practices, which DeNapoli characterizes as the sadhus' "rhetoric of renunciation." The book also examines the relationship between asceticism (sannyas) and devotion (bhakti) in contemporary contexts. It brings together two disparate fields of study in religious scholarship-yoga/asceticism and bhakti-through use of the orienting metaphor of singing bhajans (devotional songs) to understand vernacular asceticism in contemporary India.

Women, Salvation, and Childbearing (Hardcover): Kenneth L Waters Women, Salvation, and Childbearing (Hardcover)
Kenneth L Waters
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lost Girl (Hardcover): Rebecca Contreras Lost Girl (Hardcover)
Rebecca Contreras
R731 Discovery Miles 7 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
It Is Possible - An African Woman's Reflections on a Life-Long Political Journey (Hardcover): Phoebe Muga Asiyo It Is Possible - An African Woman's Reflections on a Life-Long Political Journey (Hardcover)
Phoebe Muga Asiyo
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Restore - Remembering Life's Hurts with the God Who Rebuilds (Hardcover): Susannah Baker Restore - Remembering Life's Hurts with the God Who Rebuilds (Hardcover)
Susannah Baker
R744 Discovery Miles 7 440 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Black Sheep - A Survivor's Story of Recovery (Hardcover): Eve Strongheart The Black Sheep - A Survivor's Story of Recovery (Hardcover)
Eve Strongheart
R597 Discovery Miles 5 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vacation Effect(R) for Entrepreneurs - Grow Your Business Even Faster by Working Less and Having More Fun (Hardcover):... The Vacation Effect(R) for Entrepreneurs - Grow Your Business Even Faster by Working Less and Having More Fun (Hardcover)
Denise M. Gosnell
R671 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Save R71 (11%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Graced For This (Hardcover): Jamie Wharton Graced For This (Hardcover)
Jamie Wharton
R846 Discovery Miles 8 460 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Coming From Cumberland (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): Linda K Decamp Coming From Cumberland (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
Linda K Decamp
R549 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Quality of Mercy - A Revolutionary Lady's Tale (Hardcover): Cibbarelli William The Quality of Mercy - A Revolutionary Lady's Tale (Hardcover)
Cibbarelli William
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Weaver - A Journey of God's Calling (Hardcover): Penelope Phillips The Weaver - A Journey of God's Calling (Hardcover)
Penelope Phillips
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dear Single Mom, God Sees You (Hardcover): Kisha Cheree Tinson Dear Single Mom, God Sees You (Hardcover)
Kisha Cheree Tinson
R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Writing Ambition - Literary Engagements between Women in France (Hardcover): Katharine Ann Jensen Writing Ambition - Literary Engagements between Women in France (Hardcover)
Katharine Ann Jensen
R2,684 Discovery Miles 26 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Writing Ambition: Literary Engagements between Women in France analyzes pairs of women writing in French. Through examining pairs of writers, ranging from Colette and Anne de Pene to Nancy Huston and Leila Sebbar, Katharine Ann Jensen assesses how their literary ambitions affected their engagements with each other. Focused on the psychological aspects of the women's relationships, the author combines close readings of their works with attention to historical and biographical contexts to consider how and why one or both women in the pair express contradictory or anxious feelings about literary ambition.

Finding Her Peace - Within Life Faults (Hardcover): Salimah Lee Finding Her Peace - Within Life Faults (Hardcover)
Salimah Lee
R779 Discovery Miles 7 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Creating Identity - The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Hardcover): Jayashree Kamble Creating Identity - The Popular Romance Heroine's Journey to Selfhood and Self-Presentation (Hardcover)
Jayashree Kamble
R2,283 Discovery Miles 22 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

While the world often categorizes women in reductive false binaries—careerist versus mother, feminine versus fierce—romance novels, a unique form of the love story, offer an imaginative space of mingled alternatives for a heroine on her journey to selfhood. In Creating Identity, Jayashree Kamblé examines the romance genre, with its sensile flexibility in retaining what audiences find desirable and discarding what is not, by asking an important question: "Who is the romance heroine, and what does she want?" To find the answer, Kamblé explores how heroines in ten novels reject societal labels and instead remake themselves on their own terms with their own agency. Using a truly intersectional approach, Kamblé combines gender and sexuality, Marxism, critical race theory, and literary criticism to survey various aspects of heroines' identities, such as sexuality, gender, work, citizenship, and race. Ideal for readers interested in gender studies and literary criticism, Creating Identity highlights a genre in which heroines do not accept that independence and strong, loving relationships are mutually exclusive but instead demand both, echoing the call from the very readers who have made this genre so popular.

Woman, Church and State (Hardcover): Matilda Joslyn Gage Woman, Church and State (Hardcover)
Matilda Joslyn Gage
R893 Discovery Miles 8 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Seeking - 74 Key Findings to Raise Your Energy, Sidestep Your Self-Doubts, and Align with Your Life's Work (Hardcover): Jj... Seeking - 74 Key Findings to Raise Your Energy, Sidestep Your Self-Doubts, and Align with Your Life's Work (Hardcover)
Jj Digeronimo
R654 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R56 (9%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Down the Road (Hardcover): Linda E Rennell Down the Road (Hardcover)
Linda E Rennell
R657 Discovery Miles 6 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Grief is Love - A Memoir of Surviving Bereavement (Hardcover): Mary Deal Grief is Love - A Memoir of Surviving Bereavement (Hardcover)
Mary Deal
R610 Discovery Miles 6 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Connecticut Bootlegger Queen Nellie Green (Hardcover): Tony Renzoni Connecticut Bootlegger Queen Nellie Green (Hardcover)
Tony Renzoni; Foreword by Charlene Green Massey
R679 Discovery Miles 6 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Trailblazing Black Women of Washington State (Hardcover): Marilyn Morgan Trailblazing Black Women of Washington State (Hardcover)
Marilyn Morgan
R754 R663 Discovery Miles 6 630 Save R91 (12%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Saint Brigid of Kildare - The Life, Legends, and Legacy of One of Ireland's Patron Saints (Paperback): Charles River Saint Brigid of Kildare - The Life, Legends, and Legacy of One of Ireland's Patron Saints (Paperback)
Charles River
R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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