Shalini Shah
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shalini Shah |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shalini |
| FAMILY NAME | Shah |
| SIGNATURE | SHAH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delhi |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6863-9984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hierarchies of Oppression
This article seeks to analyse the evolution of social hierarchies in ancient India. While the primary focus of the article is on gender hierarchy, it also attempts an examination of the intersection of class and caste as well. This article seeks to trace the linkages between women and śūdra in the ancient textual sources. It has also been argued that since hierarchy is never organic but a deliberate act of creation, in this deliberation, alternat…
Men, Masculinism and Masculinities
This article seeks to analyse how the concept of masculinity is embedded in the cultural discourse of Ancient India. It is also our contention that since in the ancient Indic context, the sex-gender system was a reality, we cannot discount the existence of a ‘masculinist’ structure which had a role to play in shaping the perception/functioning of a masculine persona. The article is an attempt to unravel the mystique of Indic manhood across a broa…
Gendering the Sabarimala Conundrum
Historians have for long ignored the human body as a theme of inquiry. While there cannot be a history of the biological body, there is tremendous scope for enquiring into the religious, social and cultural attitudes towards this body. Recently, the female body impinged on our collective consciousness in the context of the Sabarimala temple entry controversy. The debate which this issue generated gives me an entry point to examine the gendered na…
Poetesses in Classical Sanskrit Literature
This article seeks to render audible the voices of poetesses in classical Sanskrit literature between the 7th and 13th centuries C.E., and to juxtapose these voices with the Pālīgāthās of the Therīs, the verses of the Prakrit poetesses as well as the poetry of the Tamil bhaktins. We have argued that while the Sanskrit poetesses were not profes-sional writers, their verses occupy a niche of their own in the corpus of Sanskrit kāvya. The poetry of …
A Celebration of Love
Women and the Notion of Kāma in the Dharmaśāstrīya Discourse
Representation of Female Sexuality in the Ayurvedic Discourse of the Early Medieval Period
This article explores the representation of female sexuality as depicted in the ayurvedic discourse of the early medieval period, and shows how this representation was a gendered one. Within this discourse, women were marginalized, if not altogether excluded. The woman's body, in health and pleasure, had no autonomy of expression and was dependent on the male guardian/physician for its manifestation. The only depiction of the female body framed w…
In the Business of Kāma
In analysing prostitution, represented in classical Sanskrit literature, this article critiques the image of the prostitute as the perfidious whore whose sexuality threatened patriarchal structure as well as afeminist counter-discourse portraying her merely as a victim of patriarchal oppression. The case is made for treating prostitutes as social agents with relative autonomy, within patriarchy's parameters, to a large extent based on their consc…
Conscientisation' of Women
Representation of Female Sexuality in the Ayurvedic Discourse of the Early Medieval Period
This article explores the representation of female sexuality as depicted in the ayurvedic discourse of the early medieval period, and shows how this representation was a gendered one. Within this discourse, women were marginalized, if not altogether excluded. The woman's body, in health and pleasure, had no autonomy of expression and was dependent on the male guardian/physician for its manifestation. The only depiction of the female body framed w…
In the Business of Kāma
In analysing prostitution, represented in classical Sanskrit literature, this article critiques the image of the prostitute as the perfidious whore whose sexuality threatened patriarchal structure as well as afeminist counter-discourse portraying her merely as a victim of patriarchal oppression. The case is made for treating prostitutes as social agents with relative autonomy, within patriarchy's parameters, to a large extent based on their consc…
Conscientisation' of Women
In the Business of Kāma
In analysing prostitution, represented in classical Sanskrit literature, this article critiques the image of the prostitute as the perfidious whore whose sexuality threatened patriarchal structure as well as afeminist counter-discourse portraying her merely as a victim of patriarchal oppression. The case is made for treating prostitutes as social agents with relative autonomy, within patriarchy's parameters, to a large extent based on their consc…
A Celebration of Love
Women and the Notion of Kāma in the Dharmaśāstrīya Discourse
Representation of Female Sexuality in the Ayurvedic Discourse of the Early Medieval Period
This article explores the representation of female sexuality as depicted in the ayurvedic discourse of the early medieval period, and shows how this representation was a gendered one. Within this discourse, women were marginalized, if not altogether excluded. The woman's body, in health and pleasure, had no autonomy of expression and was dependent on the male guardian/physician for its manifestation. The only depiction of the female body framed w…
Poetesses in Classical Sanskrit Literature
This article seeks to render audible the voices of poetesses in classical Sanskrit literature between the 7th and 13th centuries C.E., and to juxtapose these voices with the Pālīgāthās of the Therīs, the verses of the Prakrit poetesses as well as the poetry of the Tamil bhaktins. We have argued that while the Sanskrit poetesses were not profes-sional writers, their verses occupy a niche of their own in the corpus of Sanskrit kāvya. The poetry of …
Gendering the Sabarimala Conundrum
Historians have for long ignored the human body as a theme of inquiry. While there cannot be a history of the biological body, there is tremendous scope for enquiring into the religious, social and cultural attitudes towards this body. Recently, the female body impinged on our collective consciousness in the context of the Sabarimala temple entry controversy. The debate which this issue generated gives me an entry point to examine the gendered na…
Men, Masculinism and Masculinities
This article seeks to analyse how the concept of masculinity is embedded in the cultural discourse of Ancient India. It is also our contention that since in the ancient Indic context, the sex-gender system was a reality, we cannot discount the existence of a ‘masculinist’ structure which had a role to play in shaping the perception/functioning of a masculine persona. The article is an attempt to unravel the mystique of Indic manhood across a broa…
Hierarchies of Oppression
This article seeks to analyse the evolution of social hierarchies in ancient India. While the primary focus of the article is on gender hierarchy, it also attempts an examination of the intersection of class and caste as well. This article seeks to trace the linkages between women and śūdra in the ancient textual sources. It has also been argued that since hierarchy is never organic but a deliberate act of creation, in this deliberation, alternat…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Human sexuality (4 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works)