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Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity And Women In Kankyo No Tomo, Yuko Mizue
Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity And Women In Kankyo No Tomo, Yuko Mizue
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
This thesis consists of research on women and Buddhism in light of a medieval Japanese Buddhist tales collection called Kankyo no Tomo. This collection reveals the predicament in which women in medieval Japan found themselves. As the focus of sexual desire (towards them and by them), they were also inherently polluted due to their connection with blood (kegare).