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1. Theravada Buddhism and the British Encounter

   Religious, Missionary and Colonial Experience in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka

   By Elizabeth Harris

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   This major new work explores the British encounter with Buddhism in nineteenth century Sri Lanka, examining the way Buddhism was represented and constructed in the eyes of the British scholars, officials, travellers and religious seekers who first encountered it. Tracing the three main historical...

   Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
2. Femme

   Feminists, Lesbians and Bad Girls

   Edited by Laura Harris, Elizabeth Crocker

   Femme seeks to redress the ways that femme identities have been elided, idealized, or not fully historicized in a productive reconsideration of lesbian and butch-femme history, of feminism, and of queer thought. As a feminist project, Femme offers an alliance between many communities of women...

   Published July 14th 1997 by Routledge