{"id":151,"date":"2017-09-20T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=151"},"modified":"2018-02-23T16:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T21:23:48","slug":"young-serinity-chapter-6-south-asian-courtesans-courtesans-and-tantric-consorts-sexualities-in-buddhist-narrative-iconography-and-ritual-routledge-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Young, Serinity. \u201cChapter 6: South Asian Courtesans.\u201d Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual. Routledge, 2004."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This chapter briefly explores the history and ideological role of notable types of courtesans in South Asia, including devadasis. It elucidates the differences between courtesans and the sub-category of devadasis, offering a thorough yet succinct history of the complex historical role of and ideology surrounding the latter. The \u201cDevadasis\u201d section beginning on page 108 would be a useful introduction to the concept for readers who are unfamiliar with what devadasis are.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0Young\u2019s book as a whole helps readers\u00a0to resist the reductive, one-dimensional view they may have about sex workers in general in the context of a complex, ever-changing, and often contentious discourse surrounding gendered sexuality (especially as it relates to patriarchy) and courtesans in various Buddhist narratives. The book is divided into three parts: \u201cThe Life of the Buddha\u201d, \u201cParents and Procreation\u201d, and \u201cSexualities,\u201d the last of which covers topics ranging from wives and husbands to sex reassignment surgeries.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This chapter briefly explores the history and ideological role of notable types of courtesans in South Asia, including devadasis. It elucidates the differences between courtesans and the sub-category of devadasis, offering a thorough yet succinct history of the complex historical role of and ideology surrounding the latter. The \u201cDevadasis\u201d section beginning on page 108 would <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/?p=151\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[31,34,23,26,44],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-courtesan","tag-devadasi","tag-history","tag-secondary-source","tag-sex-work"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/courtesansofindia\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}