tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post168448187085895875..comments2023-10-17T14:25:05.693+05:30Comments on Sarala Mahabharat: ON VIRTUOUS LIVING ACCORDING TO LAKSHMI PURANAB.N.Patnaikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08758591513346337483noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8385585168638185203.post-33020992976750506302012-02-01T21:53:49.968+05:302012-02-01T21:53:49.968+05:30Can we possibly call Lakshmi Purana a discourse o...Can we possibly call Lakshmi Purana a discourse of 'domestic feminism', notwithstanding the contradiction in the phraseology? It is certainly not a radical discourse that rejects the social mores of the agrarian Odia culture and gendered division of labour, but one that re-orients through the Shriya and Lakshmi tropes all the productive and cohesive energies of traditional domestic femininity even as it questions discriminations against lower castes and women. If at all it is a radical discourse, I would call it one of vernacular radicalism.Ashok Mohapatrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10893033946436440708noreply@blogger.com