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Review of Anway Mukhopadhyay, The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining

Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. ISBN 978-3-030-52454-8, ISBN 978-3-030-52455-5 (eBook). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52455-5

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  1. For a more detailed study of this debate between Ubhaya Bharati and Shankaracharya, see Mukhopadhyay’s “Diotima and Ubhaya Bharati: A Postcolonial Colloquy on Eros, Wisdom and Responsibility” (2019) in Sambalpur Studies in Literatures and Cultures, 87-97.

  2. The link to the podcast: https://newbooksnetwork.com/anway-mukhopadhyay-the-authority-of-female-speech-in-indian-goddess-traditions-palgrave-2020

  3. Mukhopadhyay’s Ph.D was on “Diotima’s Daughters: The Spectre of Diotima in the Late Twentieth Century Feminist Thought” from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. It is available in Shodhganga https://hdl.handle.net/10603/275394.  Accessed 31 January 2022

  4. See, Mukhopadhyay. “Diotima is not Beatrice: Some Reflections on Gender, Pedagogy and “Equiphony”” (2014). Research Journal of English Language and Literature, Vol. 2. Issue 3, 119-125

  5. This is the title of Griselda Pollock’s book Looking Back to the Future: Essays on Art, Life and Death. Routledge, 2001

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Nayak, M. Review of Anway Mukhopadhyay, The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining. DHARM 5, 111–115 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-022-00122-9

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