[audiobook] Dickey Chapelle Under Fire: Photographs by the First American Female War Correspondent Killed in Action by John Garofolo in Arts-Photography

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In South Asia goddesses are conceptualized and worshipped in a fascinating range of forms mdash; from cosmic beings to bacterial manifestations; from human-like appearances to creatures with animal and insect semblances. This book maps the diverse identities of goddesses through metaphors of grace; rage and knowledge; and offers an in-depth insight into femininity; sexual politics; ritual worships; religion; ecology and gender. Grace manifests as motherly sublimity; warring protectors; and varying personifications of sexuality. Rage encapsulates the fearful aspects of goddesses and independent identities of women. Knowledge evokes associations with order; reason and intellect in conflating gendered binaries of body/mind and nature/culture. The volume explores how these deity attributes are expressed and embedded through anthropomorphic as well as inorganic forms of nature; beautiful women; multi-legged and many-armed animals; epistemic selves; demonic beings; glamorous personifications as also grotesque sub-humans. A methodological combination of critical theory; mythological and philosophical concepts; along with popular ethnographic narratives and lived experiences; this monograph will greatly interest scholars and researchers of religious studies; cultural studies; folklore; art; literature; sociology and gender studies; especially those interested in Nepal and Hinduism.