Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Concerning Kamasutras :challenging narratives of history and sexuality , The cult of the Earth Goddess among the Magar of Nepal , Women in Honglou meng :prescriptions of purity in the femininity of Qing Dynasty China , Contemporary Theravāda and Zen Buddhist attitudes to human sexuality :an exercise in comparative ethics , Sexuality :the Chinese and the Judeo-Christian traditions in Hong Kong , Singing the glory of asceticism :devotion of asceticism in Jainism , Asceticism and sexuality in the mythology of Śiva, part II , Temple girls of medieval Karnataka , Kumari or virgin worship in Kathmandu Valley , Social consequences of marrying Viṣṇu Nārāyaṇa :primary marriage among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley , Abductions and the constellation of a Hindu communal bloc in Bengal of the 1920s , Women, sexuality and enlightenment :Kankyo no tomo , Re-imagining the divine in Sikhism , The power to pollute and the power to preserve :perceptions of female power in a Hindu village , Lustful women, elusive lovers :identifying males as objects of female desire , Not this, not that :the Hijras of India and the cultural politics of sexuality , "Like a city ablaze" :the third sex and the creation of sexuality in Jain religious literature , A comparative analysis of Hijras and drag queens :the subversive possiblities and limits of parading effeminacy and negotiating masculinity , Transsexualism, gender, and anxiety in traditional India , Ambiguous sexuality :imagery and interpretation in Tantric Buddhism