Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero. Whitney Kelting has learned that in Jainism satis appear as subjects of devotional hymns. This seems paradoxical, given that Jain spirituality is to disengage oneself from worldly existence and Jain devotionalism is usually directed toward those souls who have reached perfect detachment. In fact, however, there is a vast corpus of popular texts, many of them written by prominent scholar-monks between the 16th and 18th centuries, illustrating the distinctly worldly virtues of devoted Jain wives. In this fieldwork-based study, Kelting explores the ways in which Jain women use sati narratives and rituals to understand wifehood as a choice, which these women's ongoing ritual practices continually shape. She focuses on eight well-known Jain sati narratives, recorded in both formal ritual contexts and in informal retellings, and also as read aloud from printed versions. She finds that one of the principal functions of Jain sati narratives is to contribute to a discourse of wifehood, which addresses the concerns of Jain laywomen within the Jain value system and provides a fertile context in which Jain women can explore their questions of virtue and piety.
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Superb exploration of Jain women subjectivities in context!
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Von U. Chandra
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This is an amazingly nuanced and sophisticated exploration of women's everyday ritual behavior and subjectivities among the Gujarati-Marwari Jain communities of western India. Taking her cue from Abu Lila-Lughod, Chandra Mohanty, and Saba Mahmood, Kelting weaves a rich narrative from textual and ethnographic sources to show how women negotiate the competing ideologies of wifehood and renunciation and the competing demands of desire/pleasure and duty/obligation in their daily lives. Situatedness and contextualization allow us to appreciate the constant negotiations and choices made by these women within the social constraints in which they find themselves. Liberal feminist notions of abstract freedom thus look other-worldly in this very this-worldly narrative.
Even as a non-specialist on the subject, I found this book to be a fascinating read. It reads very lucidly even as it combines a wealth of detail and complex theoretical engagements. A model book indeed!
Even as a non-specialist on the subject, I found this book to be a fascinating read. It reads very lucidly even as it combines a wealth of detail and complex theoretical engagements. A model book indeed!
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