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This book is a detailed ethnography of traditional, predominantly upper-caste, sequestered Hindu women in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in Odisha, a state in eastern India.  It elaborates on a distinctive paradigm of domesticity and explicates a particular model of human wellbeing among this category. Part of the growing literature in “third wave” or “multicultural feminism”, it seeks to broaden the parameters of feminist discourse by going beyond questions of individual liberty or gender equality to examine the potential for female empowerment that exists in the context of these women’s lives. Its aims are twofold: first, to represent these women in ways that they themselves would recognize; and, second, to interpret, rather than merely “translate”, the beliefs and practices of the temple town such that their underlying logic becomes readily accessible to readers, even those unfamiliar with the Hindu world.

Sociology & Social History --- Social Sciences --- Social Change --- Hindu women --- Bhovis. --- Social conditions. --- Bhubaneswar (India) --- Social life and customs. --- Od --- Oddars --- Oddē --- Odh --- Odia --- Orh --- Ottar Nayakan --- Vadars --- Vaddars --- Waddars --- Waddava --- Wadders --- Waddollu --- Woddavandlu --- Wodders --- Women, Hindu --- Bhuvaneswar (India) --- Bhubanesvar (India) --- Bhubaneshwar (India) --- Bhubaneśvara (India) --- Social sciences. --- Culture --- Anthropology. --- Sociology. --- Sex (Psychology). --- Gender expression. --- Gender identity. --- Social Sciences. --- Gender Studies. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Expression, Gender --- Sex role --- Psychology, Sexual --- Sex --- Sexual behavior, Psychology of --- Sexual psychology --- Sensuality --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Human beings --- Cultural studies --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Psychological aspects --- Caste --- Ethnology --- Women --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Culture—Study and teaching. --- Primitive societies