Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories at the University of Sydney - Asian Studies Association of Australia

Gender in Southeast Asian Art Histories at the University of Sydney - Asian Studies Association of Australia: “[I]n a supremely ambivalent gesture, the future Buddha leaves behind the many subaltern women who literally define his princely existence to seek a new transcendent state. Is this a protofeminist act or simply another in the apparently limitless reinventions of phallocentrism?” The question—taken from Ashley Thompson’s keynote lecture, which launched the Gender in Southeast Asian …