Ungendered atma, masculine virility and feminine compassion: Ambiguities in renunciant discourses on gender

Contributions to Indian Sociology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-107

  Khandelwal, Meena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.1177/006996679703100105     Document Type: Article

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