LEADER 04216nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910817589403321 005 20230803021435.0 010 $a0-19-998623-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000001111665 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25563614 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000980740 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12445956 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000980740 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10968884 035 $a(PQKB)11610581 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3055545 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001111665 100 $a20130321d2013 fy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuddhist nuns and gendered practice$b[electronic resource] /$ein search of the female renunciant /$fNirmala S. Salgado 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (320 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-976001-2 311 $a1-299-80306-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aNirmala S. Salgado offers a study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns.$bNirmala S. Salgado offers a groundbreaking study of the politics of representation of Buddhist nuns. Challenging assumptions about writing on gender and Buddhism, Salgado raises important theoretical questions about the applicability of liberal feminist concepts and language to the practices of Buddhist nuns.Based on extensive research in Sri Lanka as well as on interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's study invites a reconsideration of female renunciation. How do scholarly narratives continue to be complicit in reinscribing colonialist and patriarchal stories about Buddhist women? In what ways have recent debates contributed to the construction of the subject of the Theravada bhikkhuni? How do key Buddhist concepts such as dukkha, samsara, and sila ground femalerenunciant practices? Salgado's provocative analysis of modern discourses about the supposed empowerment of nuns challenges interpretations of female renunciation articulated in terms of secular notions such as ''freedom'' in renunciation, and questions the idea that the higher ordination of nunsconstitutes a movement in which female renunciants act as agents seeking to assert their autonomy in a struggle against patriarchal norms. Salgado argues that the concept of a global sisterhood of nuns-an idea grounded in a notion of equality as a universal ideal-promotes a discourse of dominance about the lives of non-Western women and calls for more nuanced readings of the everyday renunciant practices and lives of Buddhist nuns. Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice is essential reading for anyone interested in the connections between religion and power, subjectivity and gender, and feminism and postcolonialism. 606 $aBuddhist nuns 606 $aBuddhist monasticism and religious orders for women 606 $aWomen in Buddhism 606 $aReligion$2ukslc 606 $aBuddhist nuns 606 $aBuddhist monasticism and religious orders for women 606 $aWomen in Buddhism 606 $aReligion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aBuddhism$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aBuddhist nuns. 615 0$aBuddhist monasticism and religious orders for women. 615 0$aWomen in Buddhism. 615 7$aReligion. 615 0$aBuddhist nuns 615 0$aBuddhist monasticism and religious orders for women 615 0$aWomen in Buddhism 615 7$aReligion 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aBuddhism 676 $a294.3657082 700 $aSalgado$b Nirmala S$01614172 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bStDuBDSZ 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910817589403321 996 $aBuddhist nuns and gendered practice$93943872 997 $aUNINA