Contradictory lives : Baul women in India and Bangladesh /

Contradictory lives : Baul women in India and Bangladesh /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Knight, Lisa I.
Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Description:	vii, 217 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Baul women -- Religious life -- India -- West Bengal. Baul women -- Religious life -- Bangladesh. Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Bauls. West Bengal (India) -- Religious life and customs. Bangladesh -- Religious life and customs. Bangladesh. India -- West Bengal.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8391790

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ISBN:	9780199773541 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0199773548 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

"Real Bauls live under trees" : scholarly and popular imaginings of Bauls and the marginalization of Baul women
: "I've done nothing wrong" : feminine respectability and Baul expectations
Negotiating between paradigms of the good Baul and the good woman
"Do not neglect this golden body of yours" : personal and social transformation through Baul songs
Renouncing expectations.