{"product_id":"charming-cadavers-liz-wilson-9780226900544","title":"Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature","description":"In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, \u003cbr\u003eLiz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of \u003cbr\u003espirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in \u003cbr\u003emonastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist \u003cbr\u003ehagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of \u003cbr\u003eBuddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after \u003cbr\u003edeath) served as a central object for meditation, inspiring spiritual \u003cbr\u003egrowth through sexual abstention and repulsion in the immediate world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTaking up a set of universal concerns connected with the representation \u003cbr\u003eof women, Wilson displays the pervasiveness of androcentrism in Buddhist \u003cbr\u003eliterature and practice. She also makes persuasive use of recent \u003cbr\u003ehistorical work on the religious lives of women in medieval \u003cbr\u003eChristianity, finding common ground in the role of miraculous \u003cbr\u003eafflictions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis lively and readable study brings provocative new tools and insights \u003cbr\u003eto the study of women in religious life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Liz Wilson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226900541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226900544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.09w x 0.63d","brand":"Liz Wilson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913447637247,"sku":"9780226900544","price":37.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_4da0511a-88bd-4a40-8f16-6d43ad6a7d83.jpg?v=1680620459","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/charming-cadavers-liz-wilson-9780226900544","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}