{"product_id":"buddhist-nuns-and-gendered-practice-in-search-of-the-female-renunciant-9780199760022","title":"Buddhist Nuns and Gendered Practice: In Search of the Female Renunciant","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nirmala S. Salgado\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Buddhism - Rituals \u0026amp; Practice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive research in Sri Lanka and interviews with Theravada and Tibetan nuns from around the world, Salgado's groundbreaking study urges a rethinking of female renunciation. How are scholarly accounts complicit in reinscribing imperialist stories about the subjectivity of Buddhist women? How do key Buddhist \"concepts\" such as \u003cem\u003edukkha\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003esamsara, and sila \u003c\/em\u003eground female renunciant practice? Salgado's provocative analysis questions the secular notion of the higher ordination of nuns as a political movement for freedom against patriarchal norms. Arguing that the lives of nuns defy translation into a politics of global sisterhood equal before law, she calls for more-nuanced readings of nuns' everyday renunciant practices.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890581160087,"sku":"9780199760022","price":14652.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199760022.webp?v=1781180581","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/buddhist-nuns-and-gendered-practice-in-search-of-the-female-renunciant-9780199760022","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}