The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender

✍ Scribed by Veena R. Howard (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 365
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

‘How do gender constructions transform religious experiences?’ ‘What is the role of bodily materiality in ethics and epistemology?’ ‘How does rethinking gender and sexuality force us to reconceptualise settled ontological frameworks?’ This collection provides the first research resource to Indian philosophical gender issues, exploring a variety of texts and traditions from Indian philosophy where the treatment of gender is dynamic and diverse.
Organised around three central themes – the gender dynamics of enlightenment in the Hindu and Buddhist traditions; the simple binary opposition of genders in Indian traditions; the ways in which symbolic representations of gender differ from social realities in Hindu and Buddhist practice – a team of respected scholars discuss feminist readings, examinations of femininity and masculinity, as well as queer and trans identities, representations, and theories.
Beginning with the Vedic tradition and ending with sections on Sri Ramakrishna and Gandhi, this wide-ranging handbook encourages fresh inquiry into classic philosophical questions. Offering critical analyses relevant to literary, cultural and religious studies, The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Philosophy and Gender opens up new ways of understanding gender and South Asian philosophy.

✦ Table of Contents

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Editor’s Note
1 Introduction: Gender Conceptions in Indian Thought: Identity, Hybridity, Fluidity, Androgyny, and Transcendence
Part One Gender Essentialism
2 The Unbearability of the Male Gaze: A Phenomenological Exposition of Sa.khyan Philosophy of the Body through Feminine
3 Women’s Liberation in Jainism: Understanding Philosophical Debates and Cultural Dialectics
4 Woman as Maya: Gendered Narrative in the Bhagavata Pura.a
Part Two Gender Negotiation
5 The Gendering of Voice in Medieval Hindu Literature
6 Given, Taken, Performed: Gender in a Tamil Theopoetics
7 Gender in the Tradition of Sri Ramakrishna
Part Three Androgyny, Gender Hybridity, and Fluidity
8 Divine Androgyny and the Play of Self-Recognition: Revisiting Some Issues in Gender Theory through an Unorthodox Interpretati
9 Gender in Pali Buddhist Traditions
10 Narrative of Amba in the Mahabharata:
Part Four Gender and the Feminine Divine
11 God the Mother and Her Sacred Text: A Hindu Vision of Divine Immanence
12 The Story of Sa.jña, Mother of Manu:
Part Five Gender Transcendence
13 Male–Female Dialogues on Gender, Sexuality, and Dharma in the Hindu Epics
14 The Vision of the Transcendent One:
Index