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Escaping the World

Women Renouncers among Jains

by Manisha Sethi

A study of Jain women who take initiation as nuns, drawing on fieldwork and textual sources. Sethi examines why women renounce, how authority and seniority work within ascetic communities, and how renunciation relates to family and gender in Jain society.

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