Pregnant Males, Barren Mothers, and Religious Transvestism: Transcending Gender in the Songs and Pra...
Pregnant Males, Barren Mothers, and Religious Transvestism: Transcending Gender in the Songs and Practices of "Heterodox" Bengali Lineages
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Nagoya: Nanzan University
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Realizing the constructed nature of gender is often described as a twentieth- century Western phenomenon. Nevertheless, in several South Asian religious traditions, practitioners are instructed through songs and oral teachings to exchange and ultimately transcend gender identities. In this article I discuss the practices aimed at transcending gende...
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Pregnant Males, Barren Mothers, and Religious Transvestism: Transcending Gender in the Songs and Practices of "Heterodox" Bengali Lineages
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1882-6865
