This is an essay about the role of idol worship for Hindu women in India.
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All over the world women have been trying to gain their independence from the patriarchal society they live in. Women of India are no exception to this struggle. They have been fighting for years to break through the conventional norms of an oppressive and suppressive culture. The Hindu women in India find this cultural lag especially difficult because their religion is one of the most goddess rich faiths in the world today. Trying to live …
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…Feminine Mystique?" Revue Internationale de Sociologie, 11, (2001): 5-20. Ratte, Lou. "Goddesses, Mothers and Heroines: Hindu Women and the Feminine in the Early Nationalist Movement" Women, Religion, and Social Change. Ed. Findly, Ellison, and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. State University of New York Press: New York, 1985. 351-375 Sen, Mala. India's Bandit Queen: The True Story of Phoolan Devi. Great Britain: Pandora, 1991. Sugirtharajah, Sharada. "Hinduism And Feminism." Journal of Feminist Studies in <Tab/>Religion. 18 (2002): 97-104.
