Listen but do not grieve : grief, paternity, and time in the laments of Dhrtarastra / Emily T. Hudson -- Eavesdropping on the Epic : female listeners in the Mahabharata / Brian Black -- Arguments of a queen : Draupadi's views on kingship / Angelika Malinar -- How do you conduct yourself? : gender and the construction of a dialogical self in the Mahabharata / Laurie L. Patton -- Among friends : marriage, women, and some little birds / Alf Hiltebeitel -- Gendered soteriology : marriage and the karmayoga / Simon Brodbeck -- Bhisma as matchmaker / Nick Allen -- Bhisma beyond Freud : Bhisma in the Mahabharata / James L. Fitzgerald -- "Show you are a man!" : transsexuality and gender bending in the characters of Arjuna/Brhannada and Amba/Sikhandin(i) / Andrea Custodi -- Krsna's son Samba : faked gender and other ambiguities on the background of lunar and solar myth / Georg von Simson -- Paradigms of the good in the Mahabharata : Suka and Sulabha in quagmires of ethics / Arti Dhand.

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