Handbook of women in Japanese Buddhism / edited by Monika Schrimpf and Emily B. Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrimpf, Monika, editor.

Simpson, Emily Blythe, editor.

Series:

Handbooks on Japanese studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Buddhism--Japan.

Women in Buddhism.

Women--Religious aspects--Buddhism.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2027.

Summary:

This handbook explores Buddhist women's lives and agency from ancient times to the present in Japan.The book examines lives and representations of Buddhist women by utilizing a thematic approach, with each theme representing a network of interrelated gender roles, norms, and hierarchies that determine the conditions under which women "lived" and "live" Buddhism. The contributions highlight what it meant and means to be Buddhist and a woman in the context of gendered power-structures as expressed in the realms of spatial organization, medicine and healthcare, music and sound, embodied gender and sexuality, and visual and material culture.Exploring a topic which has previously been under-represented in scholarship, this will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of religious, Japanese, and gender studies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page.

ISBN:

9781003756736

OCLC:

1574721297

Publisher Number:

CIPO000399225