Listen to the Heron's Words |
Note on Transcription and Transliteration |
Note on Kinship Terms |
![]() | Preface Listening to Women in Rural North India |
![]() | 1 Introduction: Gender Representation and the Problem of Language and Resistance in India |
![]() | 2 Sexuality, Fertility, and Erotic Imagination in Rajasthani Women's Songs |
![]() | 3 On the Uses of Irony and Ambiguity: Shifting Perspectives on Patriliny and Women's Ties to Natal Kin |
Plates |
![]() | 4 On the Uses of Subversion: Redefining Conjugality |
![]() | 5 Devotional Power or Dangerous Magic? The Jungli Rani's Case |
![]() | 6 Purdah Is As Purdah's Kept: A Storyteller's Story |
![]() | 7 Conclusion: Some Reflections on Narrative Potency and the Politics of Women's Expressive Traditions |
• | The Poetics of Resistance and the Power of Words |
• | Changing Songs and Changing Worlds |
![]() | Appendix Rajasthani and Hindi Song Texts |
![]() | Glossary of Hindi and Rajasthani Words |
Bibliography |
![]() | Index |