On Becoming a Woman: <i>Shakti</i>, Storytelling, and Women’s Roles and Rights in Nepal

Birkenholtz, Jessica Vantine

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“…With patterns similar to India, Nepal’s gender relations are rooted in an orthodox form of Hinduism, despite its ethnic diversity. It was a Hindu monarchy until 2008, with the “hegemonic Hindu ideology, including gender ideology, of the ruling high-caste” providing “the framework for Nepali civil law” and cultural practices (Birkenholtz, 2019, p. 435). The imposition of this hierarchical form of Hindu patriarchy on the country’s diverse population has circumscribed women’s lives.…”

Section: Gender Inequality and Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Nepal, despite its history as a Hindu kingdom, includes “an astounding diversity of cultures, religions, ethnicities and languages” (Grossman-Thompson & Dennis, 2017, p. 799), requiring intersectional approaches to understand IPV, patriarchy, and empowerment (Birkenholtz, 2019). Sri Lanka is perhaps the least researched regarding IPV; we need a deeper understanding of variations across ethnic/religious communities and rural versus urban settings.…”

Section: Gender Inequality and Domestic Violencementioning

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Comparative Cross-National Analyses of Domestic Violence: Insights from South Asia

Bhardwaj

Miller

2021

Feminist Criminology

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Domestic violence is a global phenomenon impacting countless lives. However, most research on the topic is anchored in the Global North. Using South Asia as a case study, we encourage further development of intersectional, comparative research. Such work brings us closer to understanding shared and divergent causes, patterns, and impacts of domestic violence within and across societies. The tendency to treat South Asia monolithically erases nuanced understandings of domestic violence and reduces South Asian women to victims. Our context-specific explorations highlight how marriage, religion and global processes reveal theoretically meaningful variations in women’s experiences of domestic violence.

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Section: Gender Inequality and Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Gender Inequality and Domestic Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Comparative Cross-National Analyses of Domestic Violence: Insights from South Asia

Bhardwaj

Miller

2021

Feminist Criminology

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“Females are always dominated and disregarded by males, just because they are female”: the continuation of patriarchal norms for young trafficked women in Nepal

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Mellor

Chettri

2021

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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Printing the Goddess: Intersections of Language, Place, Technology, and Agents of Transmission in Nepali Manuscript and Early Print Culture

Birkenholtz

2021

Philol. Encount.

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In late nineteenth-century Nepal, the advent of print and mass reproduction marked a critical and as yet understudied junction in Nepal’s literary history and attendant manuscript and print cultures. This article employs Nepal’s popular Svasthānīvratakathā to illuminate key shifts and intersections between language of composition, technologies of writing, places of composition or reproduction, and the agents of transmission that are emblematic of local manuscript practices and paradigmatic of the emergent print culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Nepal. The practices and actors involved in Svasthānī transmission shifted the text away from the private, domestic sphere to the public, translocal realm on multiple levels. Attending to these shifts as evidenced in one living devotional tradition indexes significant developments and intersections that deepen our knowledge of the changing linguistic, technological, geocultural, and socioeconomic aspects of the literary landscape in Nepal and South Asia more broadly.

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On Becoming a Woman: Shakti, Storytelling, and Women’s Roles and Rights in Nepal

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

Comparative Cross-National Analyses of Domestic Violence: Insights from South Asia

Comparative Cross-National Analyses of Domestic Violence: Insights from South Asia

“Females are always dominated and disregarded by males, just because they are female”: the continuation of patriarchal norms for young trafficked women in Nepal

Printing the Goddess: Intersections of Language, Place, Technology, and Agents of Transmission in Nepali Manuscript and Early Print Culture

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