Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers (Religion/culture/critique)

by Ann Grodzins Gold (Editor), SondraL.Hausner (Editor), Meena Khandelwal (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2006

  $144.81

  This volume brings together compelling new research on South Asian women who have renounced worldly life for spiritual pursuits. Documenting contemporary women's experiences with intimate ethnographic narratives, this book offers feminist insights into Jain, Buddhist, Hindu and Baul ascetic traditions.