Gender and narrative in the Mahābhārata / edited by Simon Brodbeck and Brian Black.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index.

Listen but do not grieve : grief, paternity, and time in the laments of Dhṛtarāṣṭra / Emily T. Hudson -- Eavesdropping on the epic : female listeners in the Mahābhārata / Brian Black -- Arguments of a queen : Draupadī's views on kingship / Angelika Malinar -- How do you conduct yourself? : gender and the construction of a dialogical self in the Mahābhārata / Laurie L. Patton -- Among friends : marriage, women, and some little birds / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Gendered soteriology : marriage and the karmayoga / Simon Brodbeck -- Bhīṣma as matchmaker / Nick Allen -- Bhīṣma beyond Freud : Bhīṣma in the Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald -- 'Show you are a man!' : transsexuality and gender bending in the characters of Arjuna/Bṛhannaḍā and Ambā/Śikhaṇḍin(ī) / Andrea Custodi -- Kṛṣṇa's son Sāmba : faked gender and other ambiguities on the background of lunar and solar myth / Georg von Simson -- Paradigms of the good in the Mahābhārata : Śuka and Sulabhā in quagmires of ethics / Arti Dhand.