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O'Flaherty in using strictly Freudian or Ericsonian models of interpretation of culture places herself in the position of knowing observers from frameworks that have become themselves, more critical of their own practices such as the interpersonal, object relations and post Freudian frameworks. See also Penelope Mcgibbon The Personalities of PrakritiKeys to Feminist Perspective in Religions and Comparative Thought. Essays in Honour of the late Dr Ian Kersacodi Watson.(New Delhi: Indian Book Centre, 1988). Ruether, Rosemary Radford. Sexism and God Talk. Towards a Feminist Theology. Beacon In Memory of Her. A Feminist Theological Reconstruction of Christian Origins, (New York: Fiorenza. E. S. Crossroad, 1994). See Archana Parachar, Women and Family Law Reform in India (Sage Publications 1992), S.P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice (Bombay: RCWS Gender Research Centre for Women's Studies. S.N.D.T. Women's University, 1993; and S. Mishra, Ancient Hindu Marriage Law and Practice (New Delhi: Deep and Deep. Publications 1994). Protection to Women in Matrimonial Home.(New Delhi: Deep and Deep. Publications, 1994). There are serious difficulties with this sort of evolutionary reasoning, but it is one that has much standing in contemporary critique of patriarchal religions. A. Sharma. Women in World Religions (New Delhi: Nari Series in Gender Studies. Volume 1. Indian Book Centre, 1995), and Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. London: Routledge, 2003. (First published 1966.) The possibility of multiple patriarchies allows for a more refined analysis of gender based privileges. Kumkum Sangari's analysis at keynote address at the Women's Conference. Jaipur. 1996. I am grateful for In Inez Talamantez's work on American Indian women, in particular the sensitive accounts in Seeing Red. American Indian Women Speaking About Their Religious and Political Perspectives. See also to Maha Siva's discussion of Rama Prasada's mother in Kali as Abject Motherand Revathi Krishnaswamy, “Subversive Spirituality: Woman as Saint Poet in Medieval India." Women's studies International Forum. Volume 16. No. 2 pp 139-147, 1993. Manushi Bhakti volume Tenth anniversary, and Leela Mullati. The Bhakti Movement and the Status of Women.: A Case Study of Virasaivism (New Delhi Abhinav publications. 1989).
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Katherine Harper, The Saptamatrika Tradition: Women in Religion Series (Edwin Mellon Press) and "Women in the Jaina Traditions” in Jinamanjari.
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