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Religious studies --- Sociology of health --- Men --- Masculinity --- Psychology --- Religious aspects --- Men - Psychology --- Masculinity - Religious aspects --- Mental health --- Assistance --- Religion --- Book

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Innumerable studies have appeared in recent decades about practically every aspect of women's lives in Western societies. The few such works on Buddhism have been quite limited in scope. In The Power of Denial, Bernard Faure takes an important step toward redressing this situation by boldly asking: does Buddhism offer women liberation or limitation? Continuing the innovative exploration of sexuality in Buddhism he began in The Red Thread, here he moves from his earlier focus on male monastic sexuality to Buddhist conceptions of women and constructions of gender. Faure argues that Buddhism is neither as sexist nor as egalitarian as is usually thought. Above all, he asserts, the study of Buddhism through the gender lens leads us to question what we uncritically call Buddhism, in the singular. Faure challenges the conventional view that the history of women in Buddhism is a linear narrative of progress from oppression to liberation. Examining Buddhist discourse on gender in traditions such as that of Japan, he shows that patriarchy--indeed, misogyny--has long been central to Buddhism. But women were not always silent, passive victims. Faure points to the central role not only of nuns and mothers (and wives) of monks but of female mediums and courtesans, whose colorful relations with Buddhist monks he considers in particular. Ultimately, Faure concludes that while Buddhism is, in practice, relentlessly misogynist, as far as misogynist discourses go it is one of the most flexible and open to contradiction. And, he suggests, unyielding in-depth examination can help revitalize Buddhism's deeper, more ancient egalitarianism and thus subvert its existing gender hierarchy. This groundbreaking book offers a fresh, comprehensive understanding of what Buddhism has to say about gender, and of what this really says about Buddhism, singular or plural.

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Social change --- Islam --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Femmes dans l'Islam --- Vrouwen in de Islam --- Women in Islam --- Muslim women --- Sex role --- Social conditions --- Religious aspects --- Women in Islam. --- Social conditions. --- Islam. --- Sex-differences --- -Religious aspects --- -Islam --- -Gender differences --- Sexual dimorphism in humans --- Sex differentiation --- Jordan --- Pakistan --- Kuwait --- Iran --- Bahrain --- Oman --- Philippines --- Egypt --- Gender role --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Sex role - Religious aspects - Islam. --- Muslim women - Social conditions --- Sex role - Religious aspects - Islam --- Feminism --- Gender --- Book

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Les grands mythes chrétiens dessinent une histoire des sexes. Un drame dans lequel la femme sépare le premier homme de Dieu : la création d'Adam tourne à la catastrophe par la faute d'Ève. Mais si Ève éloigne l'homme de Dieu, Marie rapproche Dieu de l'homme. C'est d'elle que naît le nouvel Adam : Jésus. En philosophie, en théologie, les grands textes fondateurs font le récit d'une vision masculine de l'histoire : la femme diffère de l'homme, jamais l'inverse. Comme si le point de vue viril était l'unique et l'universel - tandis que la femme demeure toujours l'autre, le genre différent. "Il n'y a ni mâle ni femelle", écrit pourtant saint Paul. Le christianisme aurait-il l'ambition de renverser la "fatalité" de la condition sexuée ? Paul poserait-il ici les fondements d'un universalisme chrétien en annonçant l'égalité des sexes ? Sylviane Agacinski montre au contraire que, comme dans la philosophie grecque, la pensée chrétienne des premiers siècles identifie l'esprit et l'intellect à l'homme, la chair et le péché à la femme. Avec cette "Métaphysique des sexes", Sylviane Agacinski décrit un régime de pensée masculin qui survit encore dans l'imaginaire contemporain.

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