Notes on Contributors
Editor's Note
1. Introduction: Gender Conceptions in Indian Thought: Identity, Hybridity, Fluidity, Androgyny, and Transcendence, Veena R. Howard

Part I. Gender Essentialism
2. The Unbearability of the Male Gaze: A Phenomenological Exposition of Sa?khyan Philosophy of the Body Through Feminine Eyes, Ana Laura Funes Maderey
3. Women's Liberation in Jainism: Understanding Philosophical Debates and Cultural Dialectics, Veena R. Howard
4. Woman as Maya: Gendered Narrative in the Bhagavata Purana, Gopal K. Gupta

Part II. Gender Negotiation
5. The Gendering of Voice in Medieval Hindu Literature, Nancy M. Martin
6. Given, Taken, Performed: Gender in Tamil Theopoetics, Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad
7. Gender in the Tradition of Shri Ramakrishna, Jeffrey D. Long

Part III. Androgyny, Gender Hybridity, and Fluidity
8. Divine Androgyny and the Play of Self-Recognition: Revisiting Some Issues in Gender Theory through an Un-Orthodox Interpretation of Ardhanarisvara, Geoff Ashton
9. Gender in Pali Buddhist Traditions, Carol S. Anderson
10. Narrative of Amba in the Mahabharata: Female Body, Gender, and the Namesake of the Divine Feminine, Veena R. Howard

Part IV. Gender and the Feminine Divine
11. God the Mother and Her Sacred Text: A Hindu Vision of Divine Immanence, Rita D. Sherma
12. The Story of Sa?jña, Mother of Manu: Shadow and Light in the Markandeya Purana, Raj Balkaran

Part V. Gender Transcendence
13. Male-Female Dialogues on Gender, Sexuality, and Dharma in the Hindu Epics, Ruth Vanita
14. The Vision of the Transcendent One: Feminist Hermeneutics and Feminine Symbolism in the Sikh Scripture, Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh

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