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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: SEXUALITY AND CULTURAL EXPRESSION -- 1 Concerning Kamasutras: Challenging Narratives of History and Sexuality -- 2 The Cult of the Earth Goddess among the Magar of Nepal -- 3 Women in Honglou meng: Prescriptions of Purity in the Femininity of Qing Dynasty China -- 4 Contemporary Theravada and Zen Buddhist Attitudes to Human Sexuality: An Exercise in Comparative Ethics -- 5 Sexuality: the Chinese and the Judeo-Christian Traditions in Hong Kong -- PART II: RENUNCIATION AND ASCETICISM -- 6 Singing the Glory of Asceticism: Devotion of Asceticism in Jainism -- 7 Asceticism and Sexuality in the Mythology of Siva. Part II -- 8 Temple Girls of Medieval Karnataka -- 9 Kumari or "Virgin" Worship in Kathmandu Valley -- 10 Social Consequences of Marrying Visnu Narayana: Primary Marriage among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley -- PART III: EASTERN RELIGION: SEXUALITY, GENDER AND PATRIARCHY -- 11 'Abductions' and the Constellation of a Hindu Communal Bloc in Bengal of the 1920s' -- 12 Women, Sexuality and Enlightenment: 'Kankyo no Tomo -- 13 Re-Imagining the Divine in Sikhism -- 14 The Power to Pollute and the Power to Preserve: Perceptions of Female Power in a Hindu Village -- 15 Lustful Women, Elusive Lovers: Identifying Males as Objects of Female Desire -- PART IV: EASTERN RELIGION: SEXUAL VARIANTS -- 16 Not This, Not That: The Hijras of India and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality -- 17 "Like a City Ablaze": The Third Sex and the Creation of Sexuality in Jain Religious Literature -- 18 A Comparative Analysis of Hijras and Drag Queens: The Subversive Possibilities and Limits of Parading Effeminacy and Negotiating Masculinity -- 19 Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India