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Contemporary Commentary
Andal was devoted to Krishna and married him symbolically through dedicating her time to him through talking, dancing and giving garlands.

Contemporary interpretations view her act of marrying Vishnu as feminist. The act of proposing a marriage with Vishnu may have been a way for Andal to gain freedom. It is said that by devoting herself to God and rejecting marrying a human, she avoided the regular duties involved with being a wife.

Feminist interpretations see Andal's pursuit of marrying Vishnu as rejecting the patriarchal institution of marriage.

Quoted from Feminism and world religions: "What Andal and other women poets did by living the way they did was to negotiate a space within a marriage-dominated society and made at least some sections of society make room for them."

Sources:

Ramanan, Mohan (Summer, Fall 1989). [www.jstor.org/stable/40873090 "ĀNDĀL'S "TIRUPĀVAI""] Journal of South Asian Literature. 24: 51–64.

Sharma, Arvind, and Katherine K. Young, eds. Feminism and world religions. SUNY Press, 1999.

Possible Sources:

Comeau, Leah Elizabeth. “Representations of Women and Divinity in Medieval Tamil Literature.” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Indiana University Press), vol. 35, no. 1, Spring 2019, p. 51. EBSCOhost, doi:10.2979/jfemistudreli.35.1.05.

I am testing out the mechanism for providing feedback on your first draft (when the time comes). The WikiEdu staff responsible for our class assure me that both the instructor and the peer reviewers will be able to comment on the drafts, either directly by posting on this "edit source" page, or indirectly by posting on the "talk" page. FeliceLifshitz (talk) 22:29, 21 October 2019 (UTC)FeliceLifshitz