Traditional Women's Roles

[Guest guest]

Hare Krishna,

 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Perhaps someone on this conference can direct me. I'm researching a chapter

for a book which is a comparison between Indian culture and Western culture,

and showing how the solutions for both lie within the Vedic culture. I am

currently working on a chapter on women and their roles. It shows the

western example of the "Sex And The City" culture, as opposed to what the

western women would see as 'oppressed Indian women' culture---both of which

are rather off in their portrayal of a woman's role. While the Indian

culture is no doubt closer to the original, still it's lacking.

 

What I can't find in our books, though, are examples of the inner community

of women, where the women are a support network for each other. I find it in

the examples of zenana, and although it was a predominantly Muslim custom,

it's also found within royalty, especially in Rajasthan. But within a Vedic

culture, I don't see any examples of the inner community of women.

 

Can someone help?

 

Your servant

Braja Sevaki dd