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Charming Cadavers

Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature

Charming Cadavers( )
Author: Wilson, Liz
Series title:Women in Culture and Society Series WCS Ser.
ISBN:978-0-226-90054-4
Publication Date:Dec 1996
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $61.95
Book Description:

In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of Buddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after death) served as a central object for...
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Book Details
Pages:276
Detailed Subjects: Religion / Sexuality & Gender Studies
Religion / Buddhism / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.032 cm
Book Weight:0.368 Kilograms



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