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This chapter addresses some of the particular concerns within the community, such as rituals, home-work balance, life-cycle transitions and fragmented support networks, showing how some members of this community have found resolutions through the auspices of the mandram. As women’s ritual lives and interpretations of the divine feminine converge with seva in this context, their leadership and engagement has emerged as a current of support in the mandram community.
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Spina, N.R. (2017). Women’s Voices, Women’s Transitions. In: Women’s Authority and Leadership in a Hindu Goddess Tradition. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58909-5_10
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