But How Do Breasts in Perfect Circles Play Havoc With My Life: Images of the Female Gaze and Longing in the Gītagovinda of Jayadeva

Jaclyn Harte

But How Do Breasts in Perfect Circles Play Havoc With My Life: Images of the Female Gaze and Longing in the Gītagovinda of Jayadeva

Authors

Jaclyn Harte

Keywords:

female gaze, embodied longing, sacred sensuality, gendered devotion

Abstract

The article But How Do Breasts in Perfect Circles Play Havoc With My Life by Jaclyn Hart offers a feminist interpretation of the Gīta Govinda. Hart examines how metaphors of physical beauty articulate mutual longing and destabilize patriarchal notions of the male gaze, suggesting that the text conveys a deeply embodied, gender-fluid form of sacred desire.