ABSTRACT
An interesting fact of contemporary research on South Asia that many Western feminist scholars are beginning to highlight precisely those gyno-positive aspects of Indic civilisation that are instantiated by Tantra and other similar cultural trends in South Asia. They have used such data in the culturally therapeutic manner outlined in contemporary ethnographic writing, for they marshall these Indic facts to mount a radical critique of the fundamental misogyny that still imbues Western culture. The author utilises such internal Western critiques to reinforce her own thesis about the culturally specific and positive nature of South Asian gender values. The author adduces the life-history data that she has collected on this theme and on that ethnographic foundation, she builds her main conceptual edifice, using both indigenous hermeneutic material from the South Asian Tantric traditions and appropriate foreign bricolage from cross-cultural critiques. The author fills in her discursive structure with cognate cultural detail available from the fascinating career of the Rajneesh movement.
