The Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian philosophy and gender / edited by Veena R. Howard

Additional Titles:: Research handbook of Indian philosophy and gender and Indian philosophy and gender
Published:: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Copyright Date:: ©2020
Physical Description:: ix, 351 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators:: Howard, Veena R.

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Bloomsbury research handbooks in Asian philosophy

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Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction: Gender Conceptions in Indian Thought: Identity, Hybridity, Fluidity, Androgyny, and Transcendence / Veena R. Howard -- pt. 1 Gender Essentialism -- 2.The Unbearability of the Male Gaze: A Phenomenological Exposition of Samkhyan Philosophy of the Body through Feminine Eyes / Ana Laura Funes Maderey -- 3.Women's Liberation in Jainism: Understanding Philosophical Debates and Cultural Dialectics / Veena R. Howard -- 4.Woman as Maya: Gendered Narrative in the Bhagavata Purana / Gopal K. Gupta -- pt. 2 Gender Negotiation -- 5.The Gendering of Voice in Medieval Hindu Literature / Nancy M. Martin -- 6.Given, Taken, Performed: Gender in a Tamil Theopoetics / Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad -- 7.Gender in the Tradition of Sri Ramakrishna / Jeffery D. Long -- pt. 3 Androgyny, Gender Hybridity, and Fluidity -- 8.Divine Androgyny and the Play of Self-Recognition: Revisiting Some Issues in Gender Theory through an Unorthodox Interpretation of Ardhanarisvara / Geoff Ashton -- 9.Gender in Pali Buddhist Traditions / Carol S. Anderson -- 10.Narrative of Amba in the Mahabharata: Female Body, Gender, and the Namesake of the Divine Feminine / Veena R. Howard -- pt. 4 Gender and the Feminine Divine -- 11.God the Mother and Her Sacred Text: A Hindu Vision of Divine Immanence / Rita D. Sherma -- 12.The Story of Samjna, Mother of Manu: Shadow and Light in the Markanaeya Purana / Raj Balkaran -- pt. 5 Gender Transcendence -- 13.Male-Female Dialogues on Gender, Sexuality, and Dharma in the Hindu Epics / Ruth Vanita -- 14.The Vision of the Transcendent One: Feminist Hermeneutics and Feminine Symbolism in the Sikh Scripture / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh.

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9781474269582 hardcover
1474269583 hardcover

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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