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Goddesses of power.(3 books on religion and gender)(Book Review)
Kiss of the Yogini: "Tantric Sex" in its South Asian Context by David Gordon White. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003, 360 pp., $43.00 hardcover.
Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender by Bernard Faure. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 482 pp., $27.50 paper.
Encountering Kali: In the Margins, at the Center, in the West edited by Rachel Fell McDermott and Jeffrey J. Kripal. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003, 356 pp., $21.95 paper.
These books present three different, though equally rich, approaches to the study of women, gender, and religion. All three also raise questions about notions of centrality and ...
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