Birth in Buddhism: The Suffering Fetus and Female Freedom

ISBN-13: 9780367890018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 210 str.

Amy Langenberg

Opis

Eschewing the backward projection of secular liberal feminist categories, this book describes the basic features of the Buddhist discourse of the female body, held more or less in common across sectarian lines, and still pertinent to ordained Buddhist women today. The textual focus of the study is an early-first-millennium Sanskrit Buddhist work

Spis treści

Reconceptions

1: Suffering is Birth

2: Birth Narratives and Gender Identity

3: Disgust for the Abject Mother

4: The Inauspicious Mother

5: Fertile Ascetics

6: Female Impurity and the Female Buddhist Ascetic

Postpartum

O autorze

Amy Paris Langenberg is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Eckerd College, US.