Female Gender in Chinese Religious Symbols: Kuan Yin, Ma Tsu, and the "Eternal Mother"
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The view that blood is both a channel to immortality and impure and in need of transformation fits a widespread perception of blood, especially female blood, as powerful but polluting and decaying in medical, religious, and social practices.
“Th e view that blood is at the same time a channel to immortality but also impure and in need of transformation, fi ts into the widespread perception of blood, and especially female blood, as a powerful but polluting and decaying substance not only in medical, but also in religious and social practices”
From Blood, Tigers, Dragons: The Physiology of Transcendence for Women (2008) · cites this paper as Sangren 1983
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“…(Sponberg 1992, pp. 3–36; Gross 1993; Skilling 2001, pp. 241–74; Crosby 2009, pp. 31–47); even in the late-imperial Chinese religious tradition, women were portrayed as Buddhist deities with some gendered qualities, such as compassion, mercy, and nurturance (Sangren 1983, pp. 4–25; Yü 2000).”
Background
- Authors
- Sangren, P. S.
- Corresponding author
- Sangren, P. Steven
- Venue
- Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1983-10
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 4-25
- ISSN
- 0097-9740 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-6943
- OpenAlex
- W2072276646
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 17 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 3 · 2013: 4 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 2.55
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Signs (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Chinese history and philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
- Keywords
- female gender, Guanyin, Buddhist iconography, goddesses
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