TY - BOOK AU - Pande,Rekha TI - Divine Sounds from the Heart-Singing Unfettered in their Own Voices: the Bhakti Movement and its Women Saints (12th to 17th Century) SN - 9781443825252 AV - BL1214.32.B53 P353 2010 U1 - 294.54082 PY - 2010/// CY - Newcastle upon Tyne PB - Cambridge Scholars Pub. KW - Bhakti KW - Women saints KW - India KW - Women KW - Religious life KW - Saintes KW - Inde KW - Femmes KW - Vie religieuse KW - bhakti KW - aat KW - Asian history KW - bicssc KW - Religious life & practice KW - Gender studies, gender groups KW - RELIGION KW - Hinduism KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast N1 - TABLE OF CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; CHAPTER I; CHAPTER II; CHAPTER III; CHAPTER IV; CHAPTER V; CHAPTER VI; CHAPTER VII; CHAPTER VIII; APPENDIX; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX N2 - Through the centuries of patriarchal control women have negotiated many layers and levels of existence working out various forms of resistance through various mediums which have often gone unnoticed. Bhakti was one such medium which was open to women. Since religious space was the only space available to women in medieval times many women embraced bhakti and it provided them the space to define their own truths in voices that revision society, polity, relationships and religions. Women's art UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=532003 ER -