Book Title: World of Philosophy
Author(s): Christopher Key Chapple, Intaj Malek, Dilip Charan, Sunanda Shastri, Prashant Dave
Publisher: Shanti Prakashan
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13 Ricoeur, Paul, Oneself as Another (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1992), p. 322.
14 Rajan Rajeshwari, Sundar, Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Cul
ture and Postcolonialism (New York: Routledge, London. 1993). This form of analysis can be contrasted with other forms of contextualization which incorporates historical analysis of a different order. See for example “Sati” in J. S. Hawley (ed). The Blessing and the Curse: The Burning of Wives in India (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), and L. Harlan Courtright, From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion and Culture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995). Others who have attempted an analysis of contemporary feminist and cultural analysis in relation to religious practices are: Steven David Ross, Plenishment in the Earth (New York: State University of New York Press, 1995); Frederique A. Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin, Dominating knowledge: Development, Culture and Resistance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990); and H. Afshar and M. Maynard, The Dynamics of Race and Gender (London: Taylor and Francis, 1994).
15 Fatima Mernissi. The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation
of Women's Rights in Islam (Redding: Addison Wellesly Publishing Company, 1991). Also by the same author Beyond The Veil. Male Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society, 2nd edition (Indianapolis and Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987). This sort of culturally sensitive analysis is somewhat at odds with the goddess generalizations', that can come from certain archaeological tropes. The Chalice and the Blade essentially examines the history of womens; spirituality in the Judeo-christian world. The risk of applying this analysis to the world of other cultures can be at the cost of repeating Orientalisms in a new form. See also Sufi Women (New York: Nurbakhsh. KhaniqahiNimatullahi Publications, 1990).
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