Hinduism Bibliography

Women and the Puranic Tradition in India by Monika Saxena

Feeding a Thousand Souls by Vijaya Nagarajan

Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind: ritual fasts in the religious lives of Hindu women by Anne Mackenzie Pearson

Brug gi yum chen rjes dran: mi dbaṅ rgyal yum A-źe Phun-tshogs-chos-sgron-dbaṅ-phyug mchog gi mdzad rnam bstan ʼgroʼi mdzes rgyan by źib ʼtshol daṅ rtsom sgrig ʼbad mi, Yon-tan-phun-tshogs

The cosmic play of power: goddess, Tantra and women by Sanjukta Gupta

Dangerous Wives and Sacred Sisters: social and symbolic roles of high-caste women in Nepal by Lynn Bennett

Daughters of the Goddess: the women saints of India by Linda Johnsen

Devi: tales of the Goddess of our time by Mrinal Pande

Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India by Mandakranta Bose (Editor)

Feminism and World Religions by Arvind Sharma (Editor); Katherine K. Young (Editor)

Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata by Brodbeck

The Goddess and the Nation: mapping Mother India by Sumathi Ramaswamy

Goddesses and Women in the Indic Religious Tradition by Arvind Sharma (Editor)

Guilty Males and Proud Females: negotiating genders in a Bengali festival by Fabrizio Ferrari

In Amma's Healing Room: gender and vernacular Islam in South India by Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

Invented Identities: the interplay of gender, religion, and politics in India by Julia Leslie (Editor); Mary McGee (Editor)

Jewels of Authority: women and textual tradition in Hindu India by Laurie Patton (Editor)

Listen to the Heron's Words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India by Gloria G. Raheja; Ann G. Gold

Making Virtuous Daughters and Wives: an introduction to women's Brata rituals in Bengali folk religion by June McDaniel

Roles and Rituals for Hindu Women by Julia Leslie (Editor)

Sacrificed Wife/Sacrificer's Wife: women, ritual, and hospitality in ancient India by Stephanie W. Jamison

Siva and Her Sisters: gender, caste, and class in rural South India by Karin Kapadia

Splitting the Difference: gender and myth in ancient Greece and India by Wendy Doniger

Status of Hindu women in India by Inderjeet Kaur

Unearthing Gender: folksongs of North India by Smita Tewari Jassal

Water and Womanhood: religious meanings of rivers in Maharashtra by Anne Feldhaus

With Respect to Sex: negotiating hijra identity in South India by Gayatri Reddy

Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition by Tracy Pintchman (Editor)

Women in Ochre Robes: gendering Hindu renunciation by Meena Khandelwal

Women in the Hindu Tradition: rules, roles and exceptions by Mandakranta Bose

Women in World Religions by Arvind Sharma (Editor); Katherine K. Young (Introduction by)

Women in India: two perspectives by Doranne Jacobson, Susan S. Wadley

Women's Authority and Leadership in a Hindu Goddess Tradition by Nanette R. Spina

Women's Authority and Leadership in a Hindu Goddess Tradition by Nanette R. Spina This book investigates women's ritual authority and the common boundaries between religion and notions of gender, ethnicity, and identity. Nanette R. Spina situates her study within the transnational Melmaruvathur Adhiparasakthi movement established by the Tamil Indian guru, Bangaru Adigalar. One of the most prominent, defining elements of this tradition is that women are privileged with positions of leadership and ritual authority. This represents an extraordinary shift from orthodox tradition in which religious authority has been the exclusive domain of male Brahmin priests. Presenting historical and contemporary perspectives on the transnational Adhiparasakthi  organization, Spina analyzes women's roles and means of expression within the tradition. The book takes a close look at the Adhiparasakthi society in Toronto, Canada (a Hindu community in both its transnational and diasporic dimensions), and how this Canadian temple has both shaped and demonstrated their own diasporic Hindu identity. The Toronto Adhiparasakthi society illustrates how Goddess theology, women's ritual authority, and "inclusivity" ethics have dynamically shaped the identity of this prominent movement overseas.  Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork, the volume draws the reader into the rich textures of culture, community, and ritual life with the Goddess. 

Fire by Deepa Mehta

Water by Deepa Mehta

The lover and the beloved [videorecording]: a journey into Tantra by Andy Lawrence

The one and the many by Andy Lawrence

Perpetual Mourning: widowhood in rural India by Martha Alter Chen

Widows in India by Martha Alter Chen (Editor)

Shadow Lives by Uma Chakravarti (Editor); Preeti Gill (Editor)

Eunuchs [electronic resource]: India's third gender by Michael Yorke

Hijras, the labelled deviants by Satish Kumar Sharma

The invisibles: a tale of the eunuchs of India by Zia Jaffrey

Life of a eunuch by Piyush Saxena

The Life Style of the Eunuchs by M. D. Vyas; Y. Shingala

Neither Man nor Woman: the Hijras of India by Serena Nanda

Our lives, our words: telling aravani lifestories by A. Revathi

Third sex: the society hesitates: a sociological report by Ranjit Deb Barman

The Truth about Me: a hijra life story by A. Revathi; V. Geetha

With Respect to Sex: negotiating hijra identity in South India by Gayatri Reddy

Make Me a Man!: masculinity, Hinduism, and nationalism in India by Sikata Banerjee

Masculinity, asceticism, Hinduism: past and present imagining of India by Chandrima Chakraborty

Masculinity and Its Challenges in India: essays on changing perceptions by Rohit K. Dasgupta (Editor); K. Moti Gokulsing (Editor)

Movies, Masculinity, and Modernity: an ethnography of men's filmgoing in India by Steve Derne

Popular masculine cultures in India: critical essays by Rohit K. Dasgupta, Steven Baker

Report of a South Asian Workshop on Looking Afresh at Violence Against Women and Girls through an Exploration of the Political Economy of VAWG and Masculinity: April 29, 30, May 1-2, 2005, Dalmia Resorts, Goa, India by Dina M. Siddiqui, Juhi Jain and Kamla Bhasin

Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes: sexualities, masculinities, and culture in South Asia by Sanjay Srivastava (Editor)

"Is my honor not honor?": women's narratives of marriage, violence and culture in Lahaul, India by Himika Bhattacharya

Dalit Women Speak Out: caste, class and gender violence in india by Aloysius Irudayam (Editor); Jayshree P. Mangubhai (Editor); Joel G. Lee (Editor)

Daughters of fire : speaking pain, seeking justice, sustaining resistance by Vimochana

Encyclopaedia of violence against women and dowry death in India by Kalpana Roy

From Mathura to Manorama: resisting violence against women in India by Kalpana Kannabiran & Ritu Menon

Nine Degrees of Justice: new perspectives on violence against women in India by Bishakha Datta (Editor)

Rape attributions in India: the influence of attitudes towards women, violence, and communities by Meera Murthi

Violence Against Women: new movements and new theories in India by Gail Omvedt

Violence against women in India by Y. Gurappa Naidu

Women and structural violence in India by Govind Kelkar

Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile by Ruth Vanita

Kali's Child: the mystical and the erotic in the life and teachings of Ramakrishna by Jeffrey J. Kripal

Love's Rite by Ruth Vanita

Loving Women by Maya Sharma

Made in India by Suparna Bhaskaran

The Man Who Was a Woman and Other Queer Tales from Hindu Lore by Devdutt Pattanaik; John P. Dececco

My Guru and His Disciple by Christopher Isherwood

Of horizons and beyond : glimpses of lesbians, bisexual women, and transpersons lives by edited by Subhagata Ghosh and Sumita Basu Bandyopadhyay

Queering India by Ruth Vanita (Editor)

Same Sex Love in India: readings from literature and history by Ruth Vanita (Editor); Saleem Kidwai (Editor)