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Women in Tibet : past and present by Janet Gyatso (editor), Hanna Havnevik (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Women in Tibet : past and present about?

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.

Who reads Women in Tibet : past and present?

Author

Janet Gyatso (editor), Hanna Havnevik (editor)

Publisher

Hurst & Co. ; Columbia University Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231130998

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Gender Studies