UID:
almahu_9949203660702882
Format:
1 online resource (x, 354 pages).
Edition:
First edition.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. Available via World Wide Web.
Edition:
Access limited by licensing agreement.
ISBN:
9781474269612
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury research handbooks in Asian philosophy
Content:
"'How do gender constructions transform religious experiences?' 'What is the role of bodily materiality in ethics and epistemology?' 'How does rethinking gender and sexuality force us to reconceptualise settled ontological frameworks?' This collection provides the first research resource to Indian philosophical gender issues, exploring a variety of texts and traditions from Indian philosophy where the treatment of gender is dynamic and diverse. Organised around three central themes - the gender dynamics of enlightenment in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions; the simple binary opposition of genders in Indian traditions; the ways in which symbolic representations of gender differ from social realities in Hindu and Buddhist practice - a team of respected scholars discuss feminist readings, examinations of femininity and masculinity, as well as queer and trans identities, representations, and theories. Beginning with the Vedic tradition and ending with sections on Sri Ramakrishna and Gandhi, this wide-ranging handbook encourages fresh inquiry into classic philosophical questions. Offering critical analyses relevant to literary, cultural and religious studies, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender opens up new ways of understanding gender and South Asian philosophy."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Note:
Notes on Contributors -- Editor's Note -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Gender Conceptions in Indian Thought: Identity, Hybridity, Fluidity, Androgyny, and Transcendence / Veena R. Howard -- Part 1. Gender Essentialism. Chapter 2. The Unbearability of the Male Gaze: A Phenomenological Exposition of Sāṃkhyan Philosophy of the Body through Feminine Eyes / Ana Laura Funes Maderey ; Chapter 3. Women's Liberation in Jainism: Understanding Philosophical Debates and Cultural Dialectics / Veena R. Howard ; Chapter 4. Woman as Māyā: Gendered Narrative in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa / Gopal K. Gupta -- Part 2. Gender Negotiation. Chapter 5. The Gendering of Voice in Medieval Hindu Literature / Nancy M. Martin ; Chapter 6. Given, Taken, Performed: Gender in a Tamil Theopoetics / Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad ; Chapter 7. Gender in the Tradition of Sri Ramakrishna / Jeffery D. Long -- Part 3. Androgyny, Gender Hybridity, and Fluidity. Chapter 8. Divine Androgyny and the Play of Self-Recognition: Revisiting Some Issues in Gender Theory through an Unorthodox Interpretation of Ardhanārīśvara / Geoff Ashton ; Chapter 9. Gender in Pāli Buddhist Traditions / Carol S. Anderson ; Chapter 10. Narrative of Ambā in the Mahābhārata: Female Body, Gender, and the Namesake of the Divine Feminine / Veena R. Howard -- Part 4. Gender and the Feminine Divine. Chapter 11. God the Mother and Her Sacred Text: A Hindu Vision of Divine Immanence / Rita D. Sherma ; Chapter 12. The Story of Saṃjñā, Mother of Manu: Shadow and Light in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa / Raj Balkaran -- Part 5. Gender Transcendence. Chapter 13. Male-Female Dialogues on Gender, Sexuality, and Dharma in the Hindu Epics / Ruth Vanita ; Chapter 14. The Vision of the Transcendent One: Feminist Hermeneutics and Feminine Symbolism in the Sikh Scripture / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh -- Index.
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Also issued in print.
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
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DOI:
10.5040/9781474269612
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474269612?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
