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Listen But Do Not Grieve: Grief, Paternity, And Time In The Laments Of Dhṛtarāṣṭra / Emily T. Hudson -- Eavesdropping On The Epic: Female Listeners In The Mahābhārata / Brian Black -- Arguments Of A Queen: Draupadī's Views On Kingship / Angelika Malinar -- How Do You Conduct Yourself?: Gender And The Construction Of A Dialogical Self In The Mahābhārata / Laurie L. Patton -- Among Friends: Marriage, Women, And Some Little Birds / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Gendered Soteriology: Marriage And The Karmayoga / Simon Brodbeck -- Bhīṣma As Matchmaker / Nick Allen -- Bhīṣma Beyond Freud: Bhīṣma In The Mahābhārata / James L. Fitzgerald -- 'show You Are A Man!': Transsexuality And Gender Bending In The Characters Of Arjuna/bṛhannaḍā And Ambā/Śikhaṇḍin(ī) / Andrea Custodi -- Kṛṣṇa's Son Sāmba: Faked Gender And Other Ambiguities On The Background Of Lunar And Solar Myth / Georg Von Simson -- Paradigms Of The Good In The Mahābhārata: Śuka And Sulabhā In Quagmires Of Ethics / Arti Dhand. Edited By Simon Brodbeck And Brian Black. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 291-317) And Index.