Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: What the Goddess Said: What Her Speech Means to Us Today

Chapter 2: Authoritative Female Speech and Indic Goddess Traditions: An Overview

Chapter 3: Divine and Divine-Human Speeches of the Devi: The Speech Contexts and the Dynamics of Authority in the Devi Gitas

Chapter 4: The Authority of Female Speech in Tantric Contexts

Chapter 5: Two “Devis”, Two “ Gurus” Speaking with Authority: Sarada Devi and Anandamayi Ma

Chapter 6: Modifying Masculinity: Tantric Culture, Female Speech and Reframed Masculinities

Chapter 7 (Concluding Chapter): The Beauty of Womansplaining: The Authoritative Speech of Devi in India, in the World

About the Author

Anway Mukhopadhyay is Assistant Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. 

Reviews

“The author writes in a lucid and yet sophisticated style and while the book is a must-read for scholars of Religious Studies (especially Hindu Studies) and Gender Studies, it will also benefit students/scholars of Women Studies, Comparative Religion and Postcolonial Studies. I would further insist that the book can be enjoyed even by ‘lay’ readers since it is a repository of beautiful mythological stories.” (Madhurima Nayak, Journal of Dharma Studies, April 12, 2022)