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This chapter explores the construction of the Hindu Indian woman and how language formalizes and ritualizes a particular way to be. It approaches the questions of how a gendered self is linguistically shaped by religious traditions and shows how the ascription of positive and negative values in religion leads to gender discrimination and asymmetry.
I give my sincere thanks to Dr Rajashekhar Shabadi for the data in Kannada and Dr Thomas Chacko for the data in Malayalam.
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Shabadi, K. (2005). Speaking Our Gendered Selves: Hinduism and the Indian Woman. In: Jule, A. (eds) Gender and the Language of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230523494_15
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