RELG 356 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Lock Hospital, Devadasi, Sexually Transmitted Infection

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Use specific case studies as well (for ex: talk about how caste systems can enter into devadasi topics) Key thing: step back and think of these questions as a whole past essay tips: Golden age narrative, romanticization of the past. Women were already marginal to begin with. Victorian morality, social purity" movements, anti-nautch movement, medical. Women"s body is site for discourses on heritage, idea of woman is being conflated with tradition and heritage. In this new world of cultural nationalism there is the question of what is the status of women, what kinds of women are appropriate to be citizens and represent heritage, culture. Because of this there is the next factor: Nationalization and democratization of the arts, birth of classical" indian dance (bharatanatyam) Anti-devadasi act that criminalizes whole culture of devadasis. Later december is when indians pass this anti-devad. act.

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