Voyages of Body and Soul: Selected Female Icons of India and Beyond includes scholarly essays and performance/choreographic notes from a diverse range of contributors on the themes of Mad and Divine: India's Female Saint-Poets and Epic Women of India and Beyond. The contributors explore the tendency of patriarchal societies to label exceptional saint-poets yearning for the divine as mad because of their resistance to normative and acceptable female behavior. Scholars and performers journey across history, with discussions ranging from the 8th century Tamil mystic poet Andal's divine poetry,...