The Making of Womanhood - 9788173049774

The Making of WomanhoodGender Relations in the Mahabharata\nAuthor(s): Shalini Shah\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, India\nImprint: Manohar Publishers and Distributors\nISBN-13: 9788173049774, 978-8173049774\nSynopsis\nThe second edition of this book tries to answer concerns about Mah?bh?rata as a source for history and about continued relevance of patriarchal construct in writing a new women's history. While there is no need to interpret structures as monolithic or beyond changes of time, the scale of that change cannot always be measured in terms of just technology and political formation of a given chronological span. Variations in women's lives will have to be seen at the micro level such as the varieties of households and the domestic, reproductive and sexual arrangements therein.\n\nIn analysing the mechanism of patriarchal domination the structures of lineage, residence, forms of marriage, property relations and sexuality are subjected to a c.