{"product_id":"the-bloomsbury-research-handbook-of-indian-philosophy-and-gender-9781350355620","title":"The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVeena R. Howard\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Asian Religious Traditions in the Department of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno, USA. She holds the Endowed Chair in Jain and Hindu Dharma, and currently serves as the Director of M. K. Gandhi Center: Inner Peace and Sarvodaya.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis important collection provides a guide to how gender and sexuality appear sometimes as mere binaries, other times as fluid mysteries and rich multiplicities, in Indian thought. Drawing on a wide range of ancient and modern texts, the essays offer an exciting lens for exploring the classic questions of how to live, what is the self, and where transcendence might be found. * Cynthia Willett, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy, Emory University, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors    Editor’s Note 1.      Introduction: Gender Conceptions in Indian Thought: Identity, Hybridity, Fluidity, Androgyny, and Transcendence, \u003ci\u003eVeena R. Howard\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart I. Gender Essentialism\u003c\/b\u003e 2.      The Unbearability of the Male Gaze: A Phenomenological Exposition of Sa?khyan Philosophy of the Body Through \u003ci\u003eFeminine\u003c\/i\u003e Eyes, \u003ci\u003eAna Laura Funes Maderey\u003c\/i\u003e 3.      Women’s Liberation in Jainism: Understanding Philosophical Debates and Cultural Dialectics, \u003ci\u003eVeena R. Howard \u003c\/i\u003e 4.      Woman as Maya: Gendered Narrative in the Bhagavata Purana, \u003ci\u003eGopal K. Gupta\u003c\/i\u003e              \u003cb\u003ePart II. Gender Negotiation\u003c\/b\u003e 5.      The Gendering of Voice in Medieval Hindu Literature, \u003ci\u003eNancy M. Martin\u003c\/i\u003e 6.      Given, Taken, Performed: Gender in Tamil Theopoetics, \u003ci\u003eChakravarthi Ram-Prasad\u003c\/i\u003e 7.      Gender in the Tradition of Shri Ramakrishna, \u003ci\u003eJeffrey D. Long\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart III. Androgyny, Gender Hybridity, and Fluidity\u003c\/b\u003e 8.      Divine Androgyny and the Play of Self-Recognition: Revisiting Some Issues in Gender Theory through an Un-Orthodox Interpretation of Ardhanarisvara, \u003ci\u003eGeoff Ashton\u003c\/i\u003e 9.      Gender in Pali Buddhist Traditions, \u003ci\u003eCarol S. Anderson\u003c\/i\u003e 10.  Narrative of Amba in the Mahabharata: Female Body, Gender, and the Namesake of the Divine Feminine, \u003ci\u003eVeena R. Howard\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart IV. Gender and the Feminine Divine\u003c\/b\u003e 11.  God the Mother and Her Sacred Text: A Hindu Vision of Divine Immanence, \u003ci\u003eRita D. Sherma\u003c\/i\u003e 12.  The Story of Sa?jña, Mother of Manu: Shadow and Light in the \u003ci\u003eMarkandeya Purana, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eRaj Balkaran\u003c\/i\u003e   \u003cb\u003ePart V. Gender Transcendence\u003c\/b\u003e 13.  Male-Female Dialogues on Gender, Sexuality, and Dharma in the Hindu Epics, \u003ci\u003eRuth Vanita\u003c\/i\u003e 14.  The Vision of the Transcendent One: Feminist Hermeneutics and Feminine Symbolism in the Sikh Scripture, \u003ci\u003eNikky-Guninder Kaur Singh\u003c\/i\u003e   Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084839481687,"sku":"9781350355620","price":41.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350355620.jpg?v=1762207316","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-bloomsbury-research-handbook-of-indian-philosophy-and-gender-9781350355620","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}