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Named Person: | Börngen |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Liz Wilson |
ISBN: | 0226900533 9780226900537 0226900541 9780226900544 |
OCLC Number: | 33897444 |
Description: | xv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- Celibacy and the social world -- "Like a boil with nine openings": Buddhist constructions of the body and their south Asian milieu -- Fale advertising exposed: horrific figurations of the feminine in Pāli hagiography -- Lead us now into temptation: countering Samsāric duplicity with Dharmic deceptions -- Seeing through the gendered "I": the nun's story. |
Series Title: | Women in culture and society. |
Responsibility: | Liz Wilson. |
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