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Lakshmi

In Our Time: Religion

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Are You Going to Come to You in India?

She is seen as empowering within a household. Some feminists would argue that's not at all empowering because actually makes women subject to patriarchal norms. Other feminists would say, well, let's look to these female deities for finding roll models for women. And might emphasize very strongly her notion of shacty, or power - without which the males cannot operate.

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