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Purāṇic Masculinities and Transgender Adventures in the Garden of the Goddess

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The male body has a particularly close connection to culture and to discourse and is one of the main avenues through which culture attempts to construct masculinity.…The male body functions as a kind of tabula rasa or inscriptive surface for masculinity and for culture, and discourse is inscribed on that matter, asserting its power through inscription and reinscription (Reeser 2010: 91).

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Taylor, M. Purāṇic Masculinities and Transgender Adventures in the Garden of the Goddess. Hindu Studies 17, 153–179 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-013-9139-1

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