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The violence of liberation : gender and Tibetan Buddhist revival in post-Mao China / Charlene E. Makley.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Makley, Charlene E., 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Buddhists--China--Tibet Autonomous Region--History--20th century.
- Buddhists.
- Tibetans.
- Women, Tibetan.
- Sex role--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Sex role.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--History--1951-.
- Tibet Autonomous Region (China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 374 p. ) ill., maps ;
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This wide ranging study provides an account of the highly contested process through which the Tibetan Buddhist region of Labrang become incorporated into the People's Republic of 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-348) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-520-94053-9
- OCLC:
- 1408681568
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