Monica Lindberg Falk is a research fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University in Sweden.
Preface
p. ix
Acknowledgements
p. xiii
Introduction. Buddhist female ascetics in Thai society
p. 1
Gender orders and gendering renunciation - past and present
p. 23
Themes of going forth
p. 53
Transcending the lay realm
p. 81
Mae chii communities and the making of a mae chii
p. 102
Gender and the fields of merit
p. 140
A religious field in transition
p. 170
Mae chiis' quest for education
p. 193
Struggles for legal recognition
p. 227
Summary and conclusions
p. 246
Glossary
p. 255
Bibliography
p. 263
Index
p. 277
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