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The Status of Women in Question The Status of Women in Question
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Women’s Nature, Pro and Con Women’s Nature, Pro and Con
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Women’s Sexuality Women’s Sexuality
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Women and Buddhism Women and Buddhism
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Suspect Detachment and the Ambiguous Status of Nuns Suspect Detachment and the Ambiguous Status of Nuns
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Trans Women Trans Women
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Conclusion: The Great Chain of Burman Buddhist Being Conclusion: The Great Chain of Burman Buddhist Being
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Nine Masculinity’s Others: Women, Nuns, and Trans Women
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Published:September 2017
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Abstract
Men’s superior status within Burmese society places women, nuns, and trans women in positions of subordinate status. Debate about women’s “relatively high standing” in Burmese society is best resolved by considering the hierarchical understandings that make subordination appropriate rather than oppressive in the views of many Burmese women. Women’s subordination stems from and allows for their greater readiness to forge attachments. Nuns arouse ambivalent reactions because as religious their choosing autonomy makes sense but as women it does not. Trans women are disdained because they give up the greater prestige and autonomy their biological sex makes readily available to them. But they are tolerated because they respect gender categories and behave in accordance with their feminine, thus subordinate, status.
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