The following reading material is an essential self-study component of Module 2 and will form part of the assessment.
Collett, Alice, ed. 2014. ‘Introduction’ in Women in Early Indian Buddhism: Comparative Textual Studies. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press.
Dhand, Arti. 2008. ‘Nivṛtti Dharma: The Search for the Highest’. pp. 55-94, in Woman as Fire, Woman as Sage: Sexual Ideology in the Mahabharata. SUNY Press.
Leslie, Julia. 1996. ‘Menstruation Myths’. pp. 87–105 in Myth and Mythmaking: Continuous Evolution in Indian Tradition, edited by J. Leslie. Routledge.
