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Tainted Gender: Sexual Impurity and Women in Kankyo no Tomo

This thesis consists of research on women and Buddhism in light of a medieval Japanese Buddhist tales collection called Kankyo no Tomo. This collection reveals the predicament in which women in medieval Japan found themselves. As the focus of sexual desire (towards them and by them), they were also inherently polluted due to their connection with blood (kegare).

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UMASS/oai:scholarworks.umass.edu:theses-1420
Date01 January 2009
CreatorsMizue, Yuko
PublisherScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
Source SetsUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst
Detected LanguageEnglish
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SourceMasters Theses 1911 - February 2014

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