When the World Becomes Female

Preface and Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration

Introduction

Part 1. Imaginative Worlds of Gangamma
1. An Aesthetics of Excess
2. Guising, Transformation, Recognition, and Possibility
3. Narratives of Excess and Access
4. Female-Narrated Possibilities of Relationship
5. Gangamma as Ganga River Goddess

Part 2. Those Who Bear the Goddess
6. Wand...