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Becoming A Nun, Becoming A Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation, Hillary Crane
Becoming A Nun, Becoming A Man: Taiwanese Buddhist Nuns’ Gender Transformation, Hillary Crane
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This paper explores apparent contradictions in the gender identifications of Taiwanese Buddhist nuns. Because the texts and teachings of their tradition provide conflicting messages about women's spiritual abilities, the nuns create a complex gender cosmology as a means to accommodate textual contradictions without rejecting any textual statements. This strategy allows the nuns to assert that they have spiritual abilities equal to those of men without rejecting or contradicting textual statements that they do not. Without denying that they are women (and that they are therefore threatening to men) the nuns primarily identify with the male gender. Compartmentalizing and contextualizing gender …
Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp: An Intensive Learning Experience For Students And Participants, Mary Ann Bokkon, Michelle Glorioso, Jane Olmsted
Women & Kids Learning Together Summer Camp: An Intensive Learning Experience For Students And Participants, Mary Ann Bokkon, Michelle Glorioso, Jane Olmsted
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