Charming Cadavers

Foreword
Catharine R. Stimpson
Preface
Note on Terminology
Introduction
1: Celibacy and the Social World
2: "Like a Boil with Nine Openings": Buddhist Constructions of the Body and
Their South Asian Milieu
3: False Advertising Exposed: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Pali
Hagiography
4: Lead Us Now into Temptation: Countering Samsaric Duplicity with Dharmic
Deceptions
5: Seeing Through the Gendered "I": The Nun's Story
Conclusion
Appendix: The Post-Asokan Milieu
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index