TY  - BOOK
AU  - Salgado,Nirmala S.
TI  - Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant
SN  - 9780199986231
AV  - BQ6150 -- .S25 2013eb 
U1  - 294.3657082 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Buddhist nuns
KW  - Buddhist monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - Women in Buddhism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice -- PART I: Narration -- 1. Decolonizing Female Renunciation -- 2. Institutional Discourse and Everyday Practice -- 3. Buddhism, Power, and Practice -- PART II: Identity -- 4. Invisible Nuns -- 5. Subjects of Renunciation -- 6. Becoming Bhikkhunis, Becoming Theravada -- PART III: Empowerment -- 7. Renunciation and "Empowerment" -- 8. Global Empowerment and the Renunciant Everyday -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - Nirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns
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