The violence of liberation : gender and Tibetan Buddhist revival in post-Mao China / Charlene E. Makley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Makley, Charlene E., 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History--1951-.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China).

Physical Description:

xvii, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

"The Violence of Liberation is an innovative and timely evaluation of Tibetan religious revival and changing gender ideals and practices in post-Mao China-one of the first ethnographies based on extensive in a Tibetan community in China since its re-opening in the 1980s. Makley has provided a powerful and nuanced reading of gendered Tibetan and Chinese cultural orders."--Charles F. McKhann, Director of Asian Studies, Whitman College"Charlene Makely has produced an excellent, beautifully written book on the incorporation of a Tibetan area into the Chinese nation, and the gendered aspects of this process. The work sets a standard for future work in terms of the breadth and depth of its research."--Beth Notar, author of Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China

Contents:

Introduction: Bodies of power

Fatherlands : mapping masculinities

Father state : socialist transformation and gendered historiography

Mother home : circumambulation, femininities, and the ambiguous mobility of women

Consuming women : consumption, sexual politics, and the dangers of mixing

Monks are men too : domesticating monastic subjects

Epilogue: Quandaries of agency.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-348) and index.

ISBN:

9780520250598

0520250591

9780520250604

0520250605

OCLC:

133465490