TY  - BOOK
AU  - Faure,Bernard
ED  - NetLibrary, Inc.
TI  - The power of denial: Buddhism, purity, and gender 
T2  - Buddhisms
SN  - 9781400825615 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BQ4570.W6 F38 2003eb
U1  - 294.3/082 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Sex
KW  - Doctrines
KW  - Boeddhisme
KW  - gtt
KW  - Sekseverschillen
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Bouddhisme
KW  - Sexualité
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-458) and index; Introduction: "Soaring and settling" : too soon? -- The cultural approach -- Gender revisited -- Gendering Buddhism -- Pt.1 Buddhism and women. The second order. The evolution of the female sangha -- The female order in Japan -- The issue of ordination -- Sociological context(s) -- Sorely missed -- Nunhood and feminism -- The rhetoric of subordination. A theodicy of disprivilege -- The five obstacles and the three dependences -- A case of blood poisoning -- Drinking from the blood bowl -- The "facts" of life -- The red and the white -- The rhetoric of salvation. The legend of the naga-girl -- Becoming male -- Interpretative divergences -- Amida's vow and its implications -- A feminine topos -- The rhetoric of equality. Gender equality in Mahayana -- Gender equality in Vajrayana -- Chan/Zen egalitarianism -- Pt.2 Imagining Buddhist women. Monks, mothers, and motherhood. Bad mothers -- The ambivalent mother -- Mater dolorosa -- The forsaken mother -- The changing image of motherhood -- Varieties of motherly experience -- Mad mothers -- The law of alliance -- Conflicting images. Women in the life of the Buddha -- Queens, empresses, and other impressive ladies -- Eminent nuns -- Femmes fatales -- Of women and jewels -- Pt.3 Women against Buddhism. Crossing the line. The utopian topos -- Stopped in their tracks -- Kukai's mother -- The Kekkai stone -- Conflicting interpretations -- The symbolic reading of transgression -- The kekkai and the logic of muen -- Women on the move. The "nuns of Kumano" -- What's in a name -- Down by the river -- The monk and the bayadere -- The discourteous courtesan -- Paradigms -- The power of women. The myth of Tamayorihime -- The Miko and the monk -- Women on the edge -- Women, dragons, and snakes; Electronic reproduction; Boulder, Colo.; NetLibrary; 2009; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries
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