Women in Tibet - Past and Present

Informationen zum Autor Janet Gyatso and Hanna Havnevik Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPart I: Women in Traditional TibetLadies of the Tibetan Empire (Seventh to Ninth Centuries), by Helga UebachThe Woman Illusion? Research into the Lives of Spiritually Accomplished Women Leaders of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries, by Dan MartinThe Autobiography of a Medieval Hermitess: Orgyen Chokyi (1675-1729), by Kurtis R. SchaefferPart II: Modern Tibetan WomenFemale Oracles in Modern Tibet, by Hildegard DiembergerOutstanding Women in Tibetan Medicine, by Tashi TseringWomen in the Performing Arts: Portraits of Six Singers, by Isabelle Henrion-DourcyThe Body of a Nun: Nunhood and Gender in Contemporary Amdo, by Charlene E MakleyWomen and Politics in Tibet Today, by Robert BarnettContributorsAppendixIndex

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• Authors: Janet Gyatso, Janet (EDT)/ Havnevik Gyatso, Janet Havnevik Gyatso, Hanna Havnevik
• Assisted by: Janet Gyatso (Editor), Gyatso Janet (Editor), Hanna Havnevik (Editor), Havnevik Hanna (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2006
• EAN: 9780231130998
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13099-8
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Tibet, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls