Women's Renunciation in South Asia: Nuns, Yoginis, Saints, and Singers

by Sondra Hausner (Editor), Ann Grodzins Gold (Editor), Meena Khandelwal (Editor)

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.

308 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Soeleen · Rating 4 out of 5]

A beautiful collection of ethnographic essays by some of the most brilliant women anthropologists. The essays provide a great insight to the lives of renouncer women across South Asia, and how the realms of gender, religion and culture influence and shape each other.