Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature by Liz Wilson

Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature

Women in Culture and Society

Liz Wilson

276 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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 consp...

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