Cindamani–The Odd Content Version: A Critical Edition yao Explores if gender as a

Explores if gender as a social analytic has remained true to its earlier feminist promise for emancipatory and empowering outcomes

”—Pinkaew Laungaramsri

by Janet Brown

Oxford University

author of City of Angels

Cindamani–The Odd Content Version: A Critical Edition yao Explores if gender as aCindamaniThe Odd Content Version (Thai: ) is the least known and studied version among the recognized texts of Cindamani, the traditional manual on Thai orthography and poetics, whose earliest tradition can be traced back to the reign of King Narai of Ayutthaya in the second half of the seventeenth century. Despite being labeled by modern scholars as odd, this version shares a close content related to the other versions from the Ayutthaya period,