Have a personal or library account? Click to login
‘Ardhanareeshwara’ – The Lord Who is Half Woman: Breaking the Gender Binary through Indian Philosophy and Contemporary Gender Studies Cover

‘Ardhanareeshwara’ – The Lord Who is Half Woman: Breaking the Gender Binary through Indian Philosophy and Contemporary Gender Studies

By: Brinda Nair  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

References

  1. Arondekar, A. (2023). Abundance: Sexuality’s history. Duke University Press.
  2. Barthes, R. (1977). Image, music, text (S. Heath, Trans.). Hill and Wang.
  3. Bharata. (1926). Naṭyasastra, with the commentary Abhinavabhāratī by Abhinavaguptacharya (Vol. 1, M. Ramakrishna Kavi, Ed.). Baroda: Central Library.
  4. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge.
  5. Butler, J. (1993). Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of “sex”. Routledge.
  6. Cho, S., Crenshaw, K.W. & McCall, L. (2013). Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis. Signs 38 (4): 785–810. https://doi.org/10.1086/669608.
  7. Crenshaw, K. (1989). Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A Black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics. University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1989(1), Article 8. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol1989/iss1/8
  8. Davis, R. H. (2014). The lives of Indian images. Princeton University Press.
  9. Devi Bhagavata Purana. (1999). In G. V. Tagare (Trans.), The Devi Bhagavata Purana (Vol. 1). Motilal Banarsidass.
  10. Ghosh, M. (Trans.). (1951). Naṭyasastra (Vol. 1, Chapters I–XXVII). Asiatic Society of Bengal.
  11. Halberstam, J. (2020). Wild things: The disorder of desire. Durham: Duke University Press.
  12. Kramrisch, S. (1981). The presence of Śiva. Princeton University Press.
  13. Kramrisch, S. (1987). The art of India: Traditions of Indian sculpture, painting and architecture. Motilal Banarsidass.
  14. Krishnamoorthy, K. (1955). Anandavardhana’s Dhvanyaloka or theory of suggestion in poetry. Oriental Book Agency.
  15. Mariyapillai, M., Paranthaman, G., Napoleon, K., & Abbas, R. (2021). A re-reading on vibrant mural paintings of Sittanavasal cave temples. International Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 6(Special Issue), 0974-5823.
  16. Michell, G. (1988). The Hindu temple: An introduction to its meaning and forms. University of Chicago Press.
  17. Mignolo, W. D. (2011). The darker side of Western modernity: Global futures, decolonial options. Duke University Press.
  18. Nambirajan, M., & Suresh, S. (2015). Kerala murals. Archaeological Survey of India.
  19. Nampoothiry, G. V. (1999). Kerala mural painting: An artistic legacy of the temples. Directorate of Archaeology, Government of Kerala.
  20. Nardi, I., et al. (2006). On measuring images: A critical analysis of the theory of Talamana. In Sahrdaya: Studies in Indian and South East Asian Art in Honour of Dr. R. Nagaswamy (pp. 253–266).
  21. Owen, L. N. (2010). Kings or ascetics? Evidence of patronage in Ellora’s Jain caves. Artibus Asiae, 70(2), 181–225. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41416217
  22. Paramasivan, S. (1939). The Pallava paintings at Conjeevaram—An investigation into the methods. Proceedings of the Indian Academy of Sciences - Section A, 10(2). Springer India.
  23. Puar, J. K. (2022). Whither Homonationalism? In Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism (pp. 7–22). Routledge.
  24. Quijano, A. (2000). Coloniality of power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America. Nepantla: Views from South, 1(3), 533–580.
  25. Rajagopalan, R. (2012). Colour and meaning in Indian religious art. South Asian Arts Journal, 7(2), 55–73.
  26. Rawat, B. (2024). Transcending binaries: Exploring the historical context of transgender community in South Asia. Omniscient: An International Multidisciplinary Peer Reviewed Journal, 2(1), 26–36.
  27. Reddy, T. B. (2018). Caves and the surrounding archaeological assemblages in Talakona region, Andhra Pradesh. Chitrolekha Journal on Art and Design, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.21659/cjad.23.v2n305
  28. Namboothirippad, K.S. (2013). Dhyanaslokangal. Kunnamkulam: Panchangam Pustaksala.
  29. Shankaracharya, A. (2002). Saundaryalahari (S. N. Dasgupta, Trans.). Motilal Banarsidass.
  30. Sharma, P. (2007). Varaha motif in the Chalukyan rock-cut caves at Badami. Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, 68, 1417–1421. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44145651
  31. Shastri, J. L. (Ed.). (1970). Shiva Purana (Vol. 2: Rudra Samhita, Kumarakhand; Trans. by a Board of Scholars). Motilal Banarsidass.
  32. Sivaramamurti, C. (1978). Indian painting. National Book Trust.
  33. Srinivasan, M. (2016). Ritual performance and gender in South Indian temple arts. Dance Research Journal, 48(3), 25–44. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0149767716000179
  34. Srinivasan, S. P., & Chandrasekaran, S. (2020). Transsexualism in Hindu mythology. Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 24(3), 235–236. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijem.IJEM_152_20.
  35. Stryker, S. (2021). Ask a Feminist: Susan Stryker discusses Trans Studies, Trans Feminism, and a More Trans Future with V Varun Chaudhry. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
  36. Tagare, G. V. (Trans.). (1996). The Skanda Purana (Vol. 5: Kedara Khanda). Motilal Banarsidass.
  37. Wang, Y., & Wu, X. (2023). Current progress on murals: Distribution, conservation and utilization. Heritage Science, 11(1), 61. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-023-00904-9
  38. UNESCO. (n.d.). The Great Living Chola Temples. UNESCO World Heritage Convention. https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/250/
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/genst-2025-0009 | Journal eISSN: 2286-0134 | Journal ISSN: 1583-980X
Language: English
Page range: 195 - 215
Published on: Dec 8, 2025
Published by: West University of Timisoara
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2025 Brinda Nair, published by West University of Timisoara
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.