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Gender in Buddhist Southeast Asian History and Anthropology - The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma. By Ward Keeler. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. xvi, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780824865948 (cloth). - Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Histories of Nuns in Modern Thai Buddhism. By Martin Seeger. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2018. xvii, 341 pp. ISBN: 9786162151477 (paper).

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The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma. By Ward Keeler. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. xvi, 333 pp. ISBN: 9780824865948 (cloth).
Gender and the Path to Awakening: Hidden Histories of Nuns in Modern Thai Buddhism. By Martin Seeger. Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2018. xvii, 341 pp. ISBN: 9786162151477 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2019

Brooke Schedneck
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 78 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 977 - 982
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1 Andaya, Barbara Watson, The Flaming Womb: Repositioning Women in Early Modern Southeast Asia (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2006)Google Scholar.

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5 See, e.g., Khuankaew, Ouyporn, “Buddhism and Domestic Violence: Using the Four Noble Truths to Deconstruct and Liberate Women's Karma,” in Rethinking Karma: The Dharma of Social Justice, ed. Watts, Jonathan S. (Chiang Mai: Silkworm Books, 2009), 199–224Google Scholar.