Women in TibetJanet Gyatso, Hanna Havnevik Columbia University Press, 2005 - 436 pagine Filling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both past and present-day Tibet. Here are queens from the imperial period, yoginis and religious teachers of medieval times, Buddhist nuns, oracles, political workers, medical doctors, and performing artists. Most of the essays focus on the lives of individual women, whether from textual sources or from anthropological data, and show that Tibetan women have apparently enjoyed more freedom than women in many other Asian countries. The book is innovative in resisting both romanticization and hypercriticism of women's status in Tibetan society, attending rather to historical description, and to the question of what is distinctive about women's situations in Tibet, and what is common to both men and women in Tibetan society. |
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Ladies of the Tibetan Empire Seventh to Ninth Centuries CE | 29 |
The Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the 11th And 12th Centuries | 49 |
Orgyan Chokyi 16751729 | 83 |
Female Oracles in Modern Tibet | 113 |
Outstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine | 169 |
Portraits of Six Contemporary Singers | 195 |
Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo | 259 |
Women and Politics in Contemporary Tibet | 285 |
Bibliography | 367 |
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