Women in the Hindu World

Women in the Hindu World explores the role of womanhood in Hindu religious culture and how the faith influences women’s social experiences.

Women in the Hindu World encourages readers to develop and nurture their own understanding of the life of a woman as a Hindu. The seven chapters proceed both historically and thematically, exploring abstract philosophical concepts about women, as well as concrete worldly conditions of the lives they lead, from the earliest stages of Hindu society to the...