My book, "The Authority of Female Speech in Indian Goddess Traditions: Devi and Womansplaining" has been published by Palgrave Macmillan [Springer Nature International (Switzerland)]. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030524548 This book: Presents a novel presentation and examination of text and praxis of Indic goddess culture Explores numerous instances of the authority of female speech from Indian goddess traditions and relates them to the contemporary gender debates Suggests a tradition of “womansplaining” from Indic goddess cultures that can serve as a corrective to a modern, global, addiction to “mansplaining.” Prof Patricia Dold's comment on this book: “Anway Mukhopadhyay offers a bold yet careful contribution to emerging dialogue between South Asia and the West, between religious, secular, and feminist perspectives, and between contemporary gender dynamics and millennia old Shakta traditions. This work is an engaging example of activism grounded in both scholarship and religion that could help us all communicate in a spirit of mutual respect.” (Patricia Dold, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada) |

Research Areas

Indic Studies/ Vedanta, Tantra, Shaktism
Gender Studies, Philosophy and Religion
English Literature, Cultural Studies
Comparative Literature, Myth Studies
Translation, Folklore Studies

My present work focuses on the interface between religion, gender and philosophy. I work on the Indic traditions, in terms of religious cultures, literary, philosophical and scriptural texts and performative traditions. Apart from these, my areas of interest include theories of performing arts, literary and cultural theories, ethnography, philosophy of speech and communication, myth and folklore studies, postcolonial literature, border studies etc.

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